Fanny Kaplan: The Woman Who Tried to Assassinate Lenin 0 ▲ UtterlyInteresting 42 minutes ago · History · hide · 0 comments On an August evening in 1918, a half blind woman with a Browning pistol stepped out of a Moscow crowd and fired three shots at the man who'd just seized control of Russia. Four days later she was dead, shot in the back of the head in a Kremlin car park with truck engines running to drown out the sound, her body burned in an iron barrel and never buried. No trial. No grave. To this day, historians still argue about whether she was even the one who pulled the trigger. This is the story of Fanny... No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.