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 ...

Earlier, a law enforcement source told TASS that an inebriated man had been taken into custody for trying to steal Vladimir Lenin's body from the namesake mausoleum on Red Square. "The incident ...

But in their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin’s tomb. Whether or not Lenin’s remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other ...