Marietta Chudakova cites a fragment of a 1953 interview with A. F. Kerensky:
"...When Vladimir Ulyanov wished to enter Kazan University, he turned to my father for help. My father wrote a letter in which he recommended Vladimir Ulyanov as a model pupil.
- That was a bold step on the part of your father, an imperial official, to give a letter of recommendation to the brother of a regicide, a dangerous conspirator... In the words of a later age, an "enemy of the people".
- No, for those times such an act did not seem at all desperate. Despite the harsh, reactionary, as they used to say then, regime, nobody bore responsibility for the actions of his relatives".
