V. Lenin's House Museum

Lenin's rooms

We were shown various rooms which have been preserved since Lenin lived there, including the bed where he died, his death mask plus casts of his hands (one clenched after an earlier stroke!). A bit ma...

Interesting role in history, as the place Lenin spent his last years, and died

The iconography is mixed, with a lot about the family which decorated and furnished the house but were then dispossessed after the Russian revolution, with tidbits about Lenin, his family and servants...

Museum-lenins political history

We went to the museum not the house. Website says it is open at 10am. We were sold tickets at the entrance to the property. When we walked into the museum, it was dark, no one greeted us and a locked ...

A lot of history.

You are taken round the house by an official guide who gives you all the official information about Lenin. He moves out of Moscow to live here after he'd been ill. There are rooms and furniture where ...

A visit to V. I. Lenin's office at the Kremlin (relocated during the Yeltsin era)

Visited Gorki Leninskiy (Го́рки Ле́нинские), which is the museum housing Lenin's office and apartment at the Kremlin after it was relocated by Yeltsin in the 1990's (awaiting restoration). The items i...