Death still suits Lenin, even 100 years later. The embalmed body of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov lies clad in a fine suit in a specially built mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square.
Vladimir Lenin died over a century ago, on January 21, 1924. Shortly after his death, the Soviet authorities made a decision to embalm the body of the Russian communist revolutionary.
the State Historical Museum on the north and Lenin's Mausoleum on the west. One of the world's most famous public squares, the Red Square sits at the physical center of Moscow and is considered ...