Krupskaya

[ kroop-skuh-yuh ]

noun

1. Na·dezh·da Kon·stan·ti·nov·na [nuh-, dye, -zhd, uh, k, uh, n-stuhn-, tyee, -n, uh, v-n, uh], 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.

Example Sentences

His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, wanted him to be buried in a conventional grave.

From Seattle Times

Education today would be unrecognizable to people such as John Dewey and Nadezhda Krupskaya, theorists of learning for the greater good.

From Salon

From their very different perspectives — Pragmatism for Dewey and Marxism for Krupskaya—they were united in the hope that education would enhance the social life of human beings.

From Salon

Krupskaya Elliott of the Virginia Legal Aid Justice Center was among dozens of activists gathered in the rain at Justice to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

From Washington Post

Throughout the winter, Lenin had been quietly living in Zurich with his wife, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, of very little concern to anyone, banished indefinitely from his homeland.

From The New Yorker