On August 1, 1924 the first permanent mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov) was opened to the public. Lenin played a key role in establishing the Soviet state. He served as chairman of the ...

TASS/. Ninety-five years ago, on 1 August 1924, the first permanent mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov) was opened to the public. Lenin was a founder of the Soviet state, chairman of the Council ...

But Putin, born in Leningrad in the midst of the Soviet era ... That is the embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin, lying in a "squat stone mausoleum just outside the Kremlin walls".

Lenin's Mausoleum is located in Red Square and is probably one of the stranger tourist attractions you'll ever come across. It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that ...

George Weigel is puzzled over why the Russian Orthodox Church is cautioning against removing the pickled body of Lenin from his tomb on Red Square. Excerpt: A senior Catholic official deeply ...

Here, pin-drop silence resonates amid thousands of books. The library at Russian House, a Russian government enterprise, is in Delhi’s heart, but the third-floor windows show nothing of the city ...