The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the mausoleum and see embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. According ...

If you visited Moscow as a tourist, you may have seen and visited the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.Lenin’s Mausoleum also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the ...

Here, pin-drop silence resonates amid thousands of books. The library at Russian House, a Russian government enterprise, is in Delhi’s heart, but the third-floor windows show nothing of the city, ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The truth is, it's been years since I visited the mausoleum. But ...

Iconoclasts always end up needing more icons than anyone else. Thus the familiar, revered image is seen everywhere in Russia—framed in classrooms and pasted on peeling walls, idealized on canvas and ...