Lenin's Mausoleum

Even visitors who oppose Lenin's views or indifferent to him will find it worth while, for the sake of the experience, to join the queue - sometimes apparently endless, particularly in summer - and go down into the air conditioned vault in which the embalmed body of the founder of the Soviet State lies in a glass coffin. The Lenin Mausoleum, designed by the outstanding Soviet architect Alexei Shchusev, was erected in Red Square in 1930, replacing a wooden mausoleum built there immediately after Lenin's death.