At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

Communists in Russia are commemorating the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin -- the founding father of the Soviet Union. Many Russians denounce suggestions that Lenin's body should be moved, and they made ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ... Petersburg to Irkutsk, and his embalmed corpse—Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage in 1924 at age 53—still lies in its marble mausoleum beside the Kremlin.

The Lenin sculpture has upheld its status since. Vladimir Lenin- an advocate of socialism and equality and the founder of the former Soviet Union, died on January 21, 1924.

It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that has been on display almost every day since his death in 1924. Lonely Planet says, "Whether for the creepiness value or an ...