Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (; , Nizhny Novgorod – 19 October 1935, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet politician. The older sister of Vladimir Lenin and of Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, she married Mark Yelizarov (1863–1919), who became Soviet Russia's first People's Commissar for Transport (in office, 1917–1918). In 2011 the State Historical Museum in Moscow put on display a 1932 letter from Anna to Joseph Stalin, in which she reveals that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish native of Zhitomir who converted in order to leave the Pale of Settlement. She asked Stalin to make this publicly known in order to counter increasing anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union at the time, but he refused and told her to keep the matter secret. References Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia External links Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Entry on Anna Yelizarova-Ulyanova English translation of Great Soviet Encyclopedia article 1864 births 1935 deaths Politicians from Nizhny Novgorod People from Nizhegorodsky Uyezd Family of Vladimir Lenin Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Russian untitled nobility