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  CNN - Communists mark 75th anniversary of Lenin's death - January 21, 1999
Lenin, who led the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and founded the Soviet Union, died of a massive stroke in 1924 at the age of 53.
Lenin had said he wanted to be interred next to his mother in St. Petersburg.
Lenin's fingertips have turned fl and blue, and his lower body is covered by a thick fl drape.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9901/21/lenin/index.html   (679 words)

  
 Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lenin's Mausoleum has to be one of Moscow's most curious tourist attractions.
Despite the objections of Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, the former leader's party colleagues saw a way to manipulate Lenin's death to their own political advantage and decided to attempt the embalming of his body.
The mausoleum is a step-pyramid of cubes faced with red granite and fl labradorite.
www.moscow-taxi.com /sightseeing/red-square/mausoleum.html   (473 words)

  
 Lenin's Embalmers - Ilya Zbarsky (and Samuel Hutchinson)
Lenin's Embalmers - Ilya Zbarsky (and Samuel Hutchinson)
Admittedly, not many are on permanent display, keeping the corpse in the public eye, but Lenin's earthly remains have attracted more than their fair share of interest.
The story of how Lenin came to be embalmed -- with which the book actually opens -- is telling, with Stalin overriding the many opposed to the bizarre idea (as he was so often to do in so many other areas...).
www.complete-review.com /reviews/zbarskyi/lenins.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Lenin's Mausoleum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenin's Mausoleum (Russian: Мавзолей Ленина), also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the final resting place of Vladimir Lenin.
On the morning of January 23, Professor Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov—a prominent Russian pathologist and anatomist (not to be confused with physicist Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, his son)—embalmed Lenin's body to keep it intact until the burial.
Stalin's body next to Lenin's: it remained until October 31, 1961, when the body was removed from the Mausoleum and buried next to the Kremlin walls as part of the process of de-Stalinization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenin's_Mausoleum   (780 words)

  
 Lenin's Tomb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This may be academic, however, Boris Yeltsin wants to give him a decent burial and demolish the mausoleum.
Lenin's Tomb served as the stand from which all of the Soviet honchos would review their military might on May Day.
Western intelligence agencies would then carefully analyze pictures of the reviewers to see who was present and where they stood in relation to each other and so divine the Soviet leadership hierarchy.
www.marginalsoftware.com /MTrip/lenins.htm   (129 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com Archive :: View topic - Lenin's Mausoleum
Along with this, we have the naming of a city after Lenin, the building of many statues, and the use of his image on cigerate packets, biscuits and cups.
This glorificaiton of Lenin brought opposition, including from lenin's sisters and brother, from Kamenev and Bukharin; from Krupskaya, Lenin's widow who refused to visit the meusoleum, and the revolutionary poet, Mayakovsky.
Lenin is a inseparable part of the history of Russia.
www.politicsforum.org /soviet/viewtopic.php?t=3727   (987 words)

  
 Lenin Mausoleum history in photos
A special model of the new granit Lenin Mausoleum was produced in order to make sure the new building would blend in well.
G.Dimitrov, A.Mikoyan, M.Gorky on the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum
G.Zhukov and I.Stalin on the tribune of the Mausoleum.
www.aha.ru /~mausoleu/m-hist_e.htm   (155 words)

  
 Lenin's Tomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenin's Mausoleum is a landmark in Moscow's Red Square, which houses the body of Vladimir Lenin.
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by David Remnick.
Lenin's Tomb (blog) is a left-wing UK blog covering world news and politics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenin's_Tomb   (109 words)

  
 Good-Bye, Lenin? - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lenin was everywhere — in our schoolbooks, in the songs we sung, in the films we watched, on TV, on the badges we wore, in the names of the streets and squares… We did not need a mausoleum to be aware of his ubiquitous presence.
Conversely, 31 percent saw no problem with the mausoleum and regard it as a tourist attraction, and 22 percent believe the body of Lenin deserves to be at its current location.
As for who should decide on Lenin’s eventual resting place, 30 percent suggest holding a nationwide referendum, 24 percent think the former Soviet leader’s relatives should have the final say, and 16 percent would leave it up to Putin.
www.mosnews.com /feature/2005/11/18/lenin.shtml   (1263 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Russia - LENIN'S MAUSOLEUM REOPENS
Red Square mausoleum Tuesday after two months of annual "cleaning." The works were conducted by experts from the research center of biomedical technologies under the All-Russia Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
In his opinion, with appropriate care and timely preservation procedures Lenin's body can be kept in the Mausoleum for another 100 years.
Lenin's Mausoleum has been closed to public access since February 14.
en.rian.ru /russia/20050419/39694068.html   (244 words)

  
 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Russia: Lenin’s Mausoleum
Kuryokhin proved that Lenin was a mushroom and a radio wave (a masterpiece of a show with Sholokhov in 1991!).
Marat Guelman (if I’m not mistaken) served Lenin as an 80-kg cake (by Yuri Shabelnikov), which was devoured with pleasure with spoons by those who were invited for the act (in 2000, I guess, and Marat should correct me if I’m wrong).
After the “velvet revolution” in Czechoslovakia, the mausoleum was closed and the bodies (there was a bunch of them in there) were re-buried.
www.globalvoicesonline.org /2006/11/15/russia-lenins-mausoleum   (827 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lenin's Embalmers: Books: Ilya Zbarsky,Samuel Hutchinson,Barbara Bray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lenin had been dead for two months before they were able to begin working in a laboratory housed inside Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square.
It was the author's father, Boris Zbarsky, who was in charge of the mausoleum; Ilya had a supporting role as a chemist, ensuring that Lenin did not spoil.
The author was a witness to many events, albeit from a priviledged position in the Soviet hierarchy, and his recounting of the "show trials" and the terror of the "knock in the middle of the night" is revealed explicitly.
www.amazon.com /Lenins-Embalmers-Ilya-Zbarsky/dp/1860465153   (2256 words)

  
 Lenin Mausoleum Home Page
Lenin Mausoleum guestbook (Multilanguage - big and interesting)
Under false pretests, deprived of any historical, legal and moral ground, the question of over-burial Lenin's is being aroused again.
Tomb-digger Yeltsin, who has, once giddily demolished the Ipatiev-hous, keeps demonstrating his full contempt of laws and human moralities...
www.aha.ru /~mausoleu/index_e.htm   (47 words)

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