Lenin's 150 names: why Bolsheviks changed surnames for pseudonyms

Many Russian politicians of the beginning of the XX century became known under assumed names and surnames. For what revolutionaries had to invent to themselves pseudonyms? Whom nicknamed Kubyshkin and Gutalinshchik? President of the Republic of France Emmanuel Macron visited islands French Polynesia. On Tuamota to it presented many necklaces from flowers and cockleshells – so by long tradition natives welcome the high-ranking guests. And on the Marquesas Islands Emmanuel Macron on other ancient custom was given a new name which in translation is meant "by the great leader who walks forward and which will go far". "The second...