Russian nobility (English Wikipedia)

In 1882, Lenin's father Ilya Ulyanov was promoted to the rank of Active State Councillor, which gave him a privilege of hereditary nobility, accompanied by the award of the Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd Class. [1] (in Russian), Uniros.ru.

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Raeff, Marc (1966). Origins of the Russian intelligentsia: the eighteenth-century nobility. Original harbinger book. Vol. 50. Harcourt, Brace & World. ISBN 9780156701501. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
Kollmann, Nancy Shields (2017). The Russian Empire 1450-1801 (1st ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom. pp. 297, 328, 360. ISBN 978-0-19-928051-3. OCLC 969962873.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

From 1919 to 1939, with nearly 45,000 Russians living in the capital and its immediate suburbs, Paris became the center of attraction for the entire Russian diaspora: Hélène Menegaldo: Les Russes à Paris : 1919-1939, éditions Autrement; Les russes blancs,chauffeurs de Taxis à Paris; «La petite Russie» ou la saga des réfugiés devenus chauffeurs de taxi à Paris; Guichet du Savoir: Russes Blancs chauffeurs de taxi

Sofia Tchouikina: Collective Memory and Reconversion of Elite: Former Nobles in Soviet Society after 1917. Noel Packard. Sociology of Memory: Papers from the Spectrum, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, S. 63–99, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4438-0199-7. [2]

From 1919 to 1939, with nearly 45,000 Russians living in the capital and its immediate suburbs, Paris became the center of attraction for the entire Russian diaspora: Hélène Menegaldo: Les Russes à Paris : 1919-1939, éditions Autrement; Les russes blancs,chauffeurs de Taxis à Paris; «La petite Russie» ou la saga des réfugiés devenus chauffeurs de taxi à Paris; Guichet du Savoir: Russes Blancs chauffeurs de taxi

Website of Union de la Noblesse Russe (UNR), Paris
Comment devenir membre de l'UNR, on www.noblesse-russie.org, website of the Union de la Noblesse Russe, Paris (French): “Absolute condition: Belonging to the hereditary nobility of the former Russian Empire through legitimate and direct male descent.”

From 1919 to 1939, with nearly 45,000 Russians living in the capital and its immediate suburbs, Paris became the center of attraction for the entire Russian diaspora: Hélène Menegaldo: Les Russes à Paris : 1919-1939, éditions Autrement; Les russes blancs,chauffeurs de Taxis à Paris; «La petite Russie» ou la saga des réfugiés devenus chauffeurs de taxi à Paris; Guichet du Savoir: Russes Blancs chauffeurs de taxi

Kollmann, Nancy Shields (2017). The Russian Empire 1450-1801 (1st ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom. pp. 297, 328, 360. ISBN 978-0-19-928051-3. OCLC 969962873.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Znamenski, Andrei (2017-09-07). "Joseph Grigulevich: A Tale of Identity, Soviet Espionage, and Storytelling". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 44 (3): 314–341. doi:10.1163/18763324-20171267. ISSN 1876-3324.
Roman Abinyakin (2005). The Officer Corps of the Volunteer Army: Social Composition, Worldview of 1917–1920 (Monograph ed.). Oryol: Alexander Vorobyov. p. 204. ISBN 5900901572. OCLC 60540889.