Treason convictions for two top cybersecurity officials, an APB for a former anti-corruption leader, and a sneak preview at a runaway bestseller Tuesday, February 26, 2019 This day in history: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin's wife, was born today, 150 years ago, on February 26, 1869. After Lenin's death in 1924, she served as the USSR's deputy education minister from 1929 until her own death on February 27, 1939 (eighty years ago tomorrow).