Russian library connection

I didn't know this:

"...Nadezhda Krupskaya [was] a cultural crusader and the librarian wife of Lenin. She became a prime figure in the movement to centralize Soviet library services and helped her husband set up 50,000 public libraries throughout the USSR. Moreover, following the Russian Revolution many women were recruited into librarianship and a rapid feminization of the profession occurred."

The things you learn by browsing. Thanks to my favorite hat, and his friends.