It serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, whose preserved body has been on public display since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime. The outdoor tribune over the mausoleum's entrance was used by Soviet leaders to observe military parades.

2020年8月3日 · Inside there is no government department or place of worship, but rather a glass sarcophagus containing the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the founder of the Soviet Union.

2023年4月10日 · In a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square, the body of Vladimir Lenin lies on a bed of red silk, in an ornate glass sarcophagus. Even a century after his death, the corpse of this historic Soviet leader still remains so lifelike that it’s often said to scare small children.

2024年1月21日 · FILE - The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his death.

2024年5月23日 · In 1924, the revered Russian political leader Vladimir Lenin died, ostensibly from the effects of several major strokes. A public outcry for the preservation of Lenin's corpse spurred the Bolshevik government to create a suitable mausoleum for public display.

2024年5月26日 · In the heart of Moscow‘s Red Square, a peculiar sight greets visitors: the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, still lying in state in a mausoleum nearly a century after his death. For many, the Lenin mausoleum is …

2019年2月18日 · Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian communist leader, politician, and political theorist. Upon entering the tomb, in a dimly lit red and black room, Lenin’s body, measuring a mere 5’ 5” lays beneath the bulletproof glass, redressed recently, in 2017.

2023年1月31日 · When Vladimir Lenin died on January 21, 1924, at the age of 53, the Soviet Union was in a state of shock. In a strange twist of events, the state preserved Lenin’s body and displayed it in Moscow. For nearly 90 years, Lenin’s body has been on public display at the Red Square in Moscow.

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. Today ...

2013年5月15日 · Nearly a century after the Russian Revolution he led, the mummified body of Vladimir Lenin is once again on display to visitors in Moscow’s Red Square, after the mausoleum was closed for several...