/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 of ...

The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the mausoleum and see embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. According ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But ...

A man has been detained in Moscow after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the notorious Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin’s tomb in Red Square in a failed attempt to set it on fire, according to local ...

Three months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legendary “sound-manipulator” Sergei Kuryokhin proved quite convincingly (albeit facetiously) that Vladimir Lenin had been a mushroom and a ...

Scenes from the viral video depicting members of the Blue Rider group dousing Lenin’s Mausoleum with holy water. (via Грани.Ру”s YouTube channel) This week, two men made headlines when they doused the ...

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 ...

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...

The body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin should stay in its mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow, so long as Russians retain personal memories of the Soviet period, President Vladimir Putin said ...

Two Russian performance artists were jailed for 10 days on Tuesday after throwing holy water at the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square and shouting, "Rise up and leave!" The men were sentenced to 10 days ...