Vladimir ilyich ulyanov (lenin) with fellow members of the st, petersburg 'league of struggle for the emancipation of the working class', st, petersburg, 1897, (left to right) standing - a,l, malchenko, p,k, zaporozhets, a,a, vaneye; seated - v,v, starkov, g,m, krzhizhanovsky, v,i, ulyanov, y,o, martov-tsederbaum, they styled themselves as 'old marxists', had years of revolutionary experience, and some of them had been in prison.