It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site ... value or an interest in mummification, the granite tomb of Lenin is a must-see, especially since (if some people get their ...

Removing Vladimir Lenin’s body from Red Square’s mausoleum ... From 1953-1961, Joseph Stalin’s body was also placed in the tomb but was subsequently interred at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

The poets include Anna Akhmatova, communist Russia’s most regal, tragic and ill-treated writer; Osip Mandelstam, who perished in Stalin’s gulag; Vladimir Mayakovsky, who died by suicide ...