10 Facts About Nikolay Bauman

Nikolay Bauman attended the 2nd Kazan Secondary School, but dropped out in the 7th grade because of disagreements with his teachers.

Nikolay Bauman was under observation by the Okhrana, and moved to Kyiv, and then Voronezh, but on the way to Voronezh, noticed that he was being followed, and jumped from a train as it passed through Zadonsky District.

Nikolay Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like".

Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Nikolay Bauman expelled from the organisation.

Nikolay Bauman was never pardoned by Imperial Russia, and later caught by Soviet OGPU in 1925, and records of him since then are unknown, however it is believed he was executed in the same year.

Nikolay Bauman's death made him a martyr of the Revolution, which effectively 'cleansed him of his sins'.

Nikolay Bauman's death enabled the Bolsheviks to play on the sympathies of the masses for the first time in the party's history.

Nikolay Bauman's self-proclaimed widow Kapitolina Medvedeva urged the crowds to avenge the death of her husband Nikolay.

Nikolay Bauman was the subject of the 1967 film Nikolay Bauman.

Historian Orlando Figes, contends that Nikolay Bauman was quite unworthy of the 'inflated honours' given him after his death, due to his cruel history of practical jokes; he notes how his martyrdom cleansed the memory of him.