There are, of course, some exceptions to this; say, for example, your work is funded by Joseph Stalin, and your task is to devise a way to preserve for eternity the body of Stalin's predecessor and ...

Vladimir Lenin died over a century ago ... Click through and discover how they keep Lenin embalmed. You may also like: Weird and wonderful laws that still exist in Australia today ...

In March 1924, a commission on embalming Lenin's body was set up, headed by biochemist Boris Zbarsky and anatomist Vladimir Vorobyev. On March 26, the mausoleum was closed to the public ...

That is the embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin, lying in a "squat stone mausoleum just outside the Kremlin walls". Lenin "was the creator of the first totalitarian state and he oversaw the state ...