The poets include Anna Akhmatova, communist Russia’s most regal, tragic and ill-treated writer; Osip Mandelstam, who perished in Stalin’s gulag; Vladimir Mayakovsky, who died by suicide ...

It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site ... value or an interest in mummification, the granite tomb of Lenin is a must-see, especially since (if some people get their ...

Alexander Dugin, a Russian far-right philosopher, has pushed forward the debate to bury Lenin's body to make way for Putin's.