Whether in Munich, Geneva, London, Paris, or Zurich, Lenin’s life was as bourgeois as his appearance. Weekdays he studied in some library or wrote; on Sunday he and his wife, Nadejda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, bicycled in the suburbs or strapped on rucksacks and went for long walks in the country. Occasionally Lenin indulged in a game of chess with some friend at a neighborhood cafe,
