Lenin's Mausoleum - details and images
Lenin's embalmed body has been exposed to the public shortly after his death in 1924. Monumental granite structure designed by Alexei Sciusev incorporates architectural elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the stepped pyramid or Mausoleum of Cyrus.
On January 21, the day he died Bolshevik leader, the Soviet government received more than 1,000 telegrams from all over Russia, which demanded that Lenin's body not be buried but, somehow or another, to be preserved for future generations. On the morning of 22 January, Professor Alexei Abricosov - a prominent pathologist and anatomist from Russia, (which is not the same person with physicist Alexei Abricosov) - the embalmed body of Lenin to keep until the burial ceremony. During the night of January 23, architect A. Sciusev was tasked to design and build a tomb in three days that can get everyone who wanted to take his farewell of the leader of the Soviet state. On 26 ianuiarie it was decided to place the tomb in Red Square near the Kremlin Wall. Until January 27, Sciusev built a wooden monument, at 16, Lenin's coffin was brought here. More than 100,000 people have visited the grave for a month and a half. Until August 1924, increased Sciusev monument. Another architect Konstantin Melnikov designed sarcophagus.
In 1929, it was concluded that it is possible to preserve Lenin's body for a longer period of time. For this reason he decided to build a new stone mausoleum, to replace him on the wood. The task was entrusted to architect Alexei Sciuusev, IAFrantuz and GK Yakovlev. They used marble, porphyry, granite and andezin for new construction. In October 1930, the mausoleum was finished. In 1973, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky has designed a new sarcophagus.
On 26 January 1924, Moscow released the garrison commander ordered the establishment of the Guard of Honour Mausoleum. The Russians have called a number Sentinel. After the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, the Honor Guard has stopped Mission Mausoleum.
More than 73 million people visited the mausoleum between 1924 and 1972.
Although Soviet specialists have taken the annual preservation of Lenin's body, the appearance of "waxing" his has led many to wonder if maybe it is exposed to a fake. Both former Soviet government, and today's Russian authorities have refused to make any statement about the authenticity of the body exposed to the mausoleum.
Embalmed body of Joseph Stalin in 1953 was exhibited until October 31, 1961 with that of Lenin. After this time, Stalin's body was buried near the Kremlin wall.
Boris Yeltsin, with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, tried to close the mausoleum and bury Lenin's body, but has not succeeded to accomplish the plan.
Every year, on January 21, Communist Party supporters gathered to lay flowers at Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square, marking the first anniversary of the death of the leader of the Soviet state.
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