On This Day August 30

Vladimir Lenin experienced several assassination attempts, including one on August 30, 1918 when he was shot and wounded by Dora Kaplan, a young girl from the intellectual class. The shooting took place as he was leaving a Moscow factory. The first shot penetrated Lenin's chest causing hemorrhaging in his chest; the second entered his back causing internal hemorrhaging in the stomach. His injuries caused his health to decline  and he died aged 53 in January 1924.

Vladimir Pchelin's depiction of the assassination attempt

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