After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...

A top ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin has advised him to remove Vladimir Lenin's body from a mausoleum in Moscow in ...

Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But most Russians agree now, a century after his death, it's time for ...

About 450,000 people file past Lenin’s corpse per year, according to Tass, about a third of the number of Moscow Zoo visitors and a sharp contrast from the Soviet era when seemingly endless ...

The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the ...

In frigid temperatures that hovered around 19°F (-7°C), nearly a million people eventually filed past Lenin's stiff corpse, set within its temporary tomb. The initial idea was to deep freeze ...