This is a passage from the book Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie that describes some what Lenin's brother, Alexander thought of him: "Alexander particularly disliked Vladimir's impertinence, arrogance and mockery of their mother. Once when her two sons were playing chess, Maria reminded Vladimir of something she had asked him to do. Vladimir answered rudely and did not move." Another passage states that the comfortable household collapsed when replying to a census questionnaire, Lenin wrote: "Nonbeliever (in God) since the age of 16", this was when his dad died of a stroke.