Why is Lenin's body kept in a mausoleum? Why isn't he buried?

1. specific beat tipomo
2. Lies! There are no dead in the mausoleum. What, no one was even there? Go, be very surprised and find out that Lenin was buried long ago (in 1974, if I'm not mistaken).
3. The Lenin Mausoleum is a building that houses the coffin of Vladimir Lenin with his embalmed body, put on public display.

   The Mausoleum was built according to the project of Alexei Shchusev. The monumental structure includes some elements of ancient mausoleums, such as the pyramid of Djoser (step pyramid) or the mausoleum of Cyrus.

   Shortly after Lenin died, the Soviet government received more than 10,000 telegrams from all over the Soviet Union asking the government in some way to preserve the leader's body for future generations. As a result, it was decided to realize this amazing phenomenon of the collective unconscious, reviving ancient traditions.

   On January 23, the architect Alexei Shchusev was awakened in the middle of the night and ordered to design and build a tomb for everyone who would like to say goodbye to Lenin within three days.

   On the morning of January 23, Professor Alexei Abrikosov, a well-known pathologist, embalmed Lenin's body in order to prevent it from decomposing before burial.

   It was decided to build the tomb on Red Square, near the Kremlin wall. By the 27th, under the leadership of Shchusev, a wooden tomb was erected, on the same day the coffin with the body of Lenin was placed in it.

   The milestone of 100,000 visits to the new attraction has overcome in a month and a half.

   And six months later, Aleksey Shchusev rebuilt the tomb, made it bigger. And Konstantin Melnikov designed the coffin.

   In 1929, they came to the conclusion that it was not worth burying Vladimir Lenin. Consequently, the temporary wooden structure had to be replaced with a stone one. As a result, the new mausoleum was created from marble, porphyry, granite, labradorite. The construction of the stone tomb was completed in October 1930. And in 1973, Nikolai Tomsky developed a new sarcophagus.

   Ever since 1924, a postal guard stood at the Lenin Mausoleum, which in the Soviet Union was called "Post number one". But in 1993, after well-known political events, due to the influence of propaganda, the attitude of the people towards Vladimir Lenin changed. They decided to teach the former leader a lesson and the mausoleum was deprived of guards. But then it became clear that the people were so accustomed to "post number one" that Russia could not be imagined without it, and in 1997 they decided to return the guard. This time to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

   The Russian Orthodox Church is the main inspiration behind the idea that Lenin should be buried and the mausoleum closed, for the reason that this type of tomb is contrary to Christian customs.

4. Maybe he can still have a magnificent funeral ... He was such a "good" one. He shot the tsar, the anointed of God, the royal family, children, drowned Russia in blood.
5. It's like a landmark in Russia.
6. damned jackal
7. As long as the Communist Party in Russia will be the second most important and the size of Lenin, no one will touch it.
8. Until now, discussions have not ceased about why Lenin is not buried. Despite all the explanations and reasoning, no one has given a clear answer. Some are inclined to believe that the leader of the proletariat must be immortal and always remind of himself, while others think that all this is connected with mystical events. Let's take a look at everything in more detail Illness and death of the leader Before answering the question of why Lenin is not buried, let's talk about the causes of his death. Vladimir Ilyich died at the age of 53. The leader of the proletariat died from the softening of brain tissue. The death occurred in the village of Gorki (Moscow region). In the last days of Lenin's life, his wife N. K. Krupskaya closely followed and looked after him. After this terrible event and after the body was moved to Moscow, the question arose of how and where to bury the leader. Almost unanimously, it was decided to embalm the body of Vladimir Ilyich. It was Stalin who became the initiator, who believed that the body of the leader should be buried like the relics of saints. Other opinion If we consider the question of why Lenin is not buried, then there is another version. Many argue that at that time there were people among the Bolsheviks who hoped for a significant advance in science. Some believed that in the future there would finally be a way to revive the leader of the proletariat. That is why Lenin's body was embalmed and not buried. Why don't they bury Lenin? Mysticism An interesting fact remains that the famous architect A. Shchusev, who erected several well-known churches and temples in Russia, preferred to cope with the task with the help of a pagan way. So, he chose the Pergamon altar, or the Mesopotamian cult tower, as the basis for the project for the construction of the mausoleum for the leader. As is known, in Pergamum there was an expulsion of the Chaldeans of the Semitic tribes, who possessed the skills of witchcraft, magic and divination. The priests managed to give life again to their religion, which did not recognize Jesus Christ. Therefore, Pergamum was to some extent considered a truly satanic place, since Chaldean magical and witchcraft rites regularly took place in this territory. One of the patrons of all the Chaldeans was the god Wil, who, according to legend, was in a temple resembling the shape of a quadrangle. The temple was formed by 7 towers, which narrowed one after another. It was from him that Shchusev "removed" the architectural project for the construction of Lenin's mausoleum. Some agree that Shchusev compared Vladimir Ilyich with the god Wil. Therefore, it was decided to make the mausoleum in the style of the altar. These guesses were also confirmed by the publicist G. Marchenko, who wrote that the architect took the Pergamon altar as a basis. Then the famous archaeologist F. Poulsen provided him with all the necessary information. This begs another question: Why was Lenin buried in the mausoleum of Satan?
9. I would say that this is a shame for Russia.
10. This is some kind of incomprehensible conspiracy, no one can answer why the mummy lies in the heart of the country. But one thing is for sure - this is the greatest shame of our country! They set up a burial ground in the very center of the country.

Right in the middle of Red Square, propping up one of the Kremlin walls, there is a crypt in which the body of Vladimir Ilyich is located. The key figure of the Great October Revolution, which turned everything upside down, is now reclining in a glass bulletproof sarcophagus, illuminated by a mysterious reddish glow.

Iosif Vissarionovich tried very hard to make a cult out of him. In the new world, communism was supposed to reign supreme, which means that a symbol was needed - imperishable, immortal, eternal. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Lenin is not buried, which, by the way, the authorities adhere to today.

Vladimir Ilyich died on January 21, 1924 in Gorki near Moscow. From there to Moscow, piercing the frosty air with a beep full of sadness, he was taken away by a funeral train. The air temperature reached -40 Celsius, and tears ran cold on the cheeks of the citizens who saw him off.

In the House of the Unions, where the farewell to the leader took place, the temperature was slightly higher - up to -20'C. Under such conditions, the body completely froze, and the people continued to arrive to see their idol on his last journey. In 1924, no one knew yet that he would later become a mummy, indisputable proof of the existence of himself.

Why they didn’t immediately bury the body of V.I. Lenin

In 1924, on January 23, at a meeting of the commission for organizing the funeral of V.I. Lenin, the question was acute whether it was possible in some way to extend farewell to him for at least two months. The architect Shchusev said that it was possible. It was about a structure covered with fabric inside, and on the outside it was a wooden booth erected as a temporary crypt until the end of winter. In fact, the creation of the crypt was part of the funeral. Over time, the body would have been buried, the booth removed, and the first of its kind grave-tribune would have become the last bastion of peace and silence for the untimely deceased speaker. But the country's leadership retreated from the plan.

The mausoleum is a classic example of avant-garde architectural art. In general, in 1924 they only talked about the avant-garde. Subdue nature, defy the laws of physics or do the impossible - learn to revive the dead? Such ideas also appeared, maybe it’s good that they didn’t materialize.

Iosif Vissarionovich first raised the question of the fate of Ilyich's body even before his death. Imagine that communism will overwhelm all of humanity, that hands will reach out from all corners of the planet, eager to touch the idol, the symbol, the great national deity. But at that meeting, no one supported the idea, quite the contrary. The entire top of the Politburo was sharply opposed, especially Zinoviev and Trotsky, who called the proposal "priestly ideas to resurrect the ashes." It is understandable - it somehow contradicted the emerging proletarian atheism, the overthrow of idolatry, and Vladimir Ilyich himself would not have been delighted with such decisions.

Attempts to save the body of Lenin

After Lenin's death, they started talking about it again. Nadezhda Krupskaya repeatedly asked the "top" why they did not bury V.I. Lenin? Hope was against the fact that the body of her husband was in full view, and against the fact that such a cult was made from his body. But she was assured that this was temporary - just until the first thaw. Nevertheless, Abrikosov was the first to embalm; its composition helped to preserve the appearance of the body until spring.

Along with the warming, the first signs of decomposition appeared. It was necessary to urgently decide on radical actions - to freeze the body or embalm. Engineer Krasin suggested freezing - he did not yet know what he meant by cryogenic freezing, but he was already hoping for a successful outcome, and Zbarsky, a distinguished Soviet anatomist, suggested embalming, in his opinion, a less risky undertaking. But both were unheard of, especially for the still believing population.

By the way, later Stalin said that further manipulations with Lenin were carried out at the request of the workers. Of course, this was not so, because at that time even the cremation procedure was perceived with hostility by society, not like the idea of ​​human conservation.

The party elite was inclined towards the option of freezing, Krasin insisted. He was sure that in the future Soviet science would reach a level that would allow the resurrection of the great leader. For this, special freezers were even ordered from Germany, which are quite expensive and bulky. In parallel, experiments were carried out with the freezing of dead bodies in order to prevent all possible troubles with the body of Vladimir Ilyich.

Zbarsky tried in every possible way to convince the commission that decomposition would inevitably begin even in the freezer. In the event of interruptions in electricity, transportation, defrosting, the body will change, the skin will darken and there will be no question of demonstrating it to the masses, and that in the end Lenin will have to be buried. And as if to confirm his words, March came, the body thawed and became covered with unwashed spots.

The commission summoned Professor Vorobyov from Kharkov, who had been engaged in embalming and conservation under Tsar Nicholas II. Vorobyov said before the commission that the body could be preserved, although some changes, noticeable only to relatives, would nevertheless occur. However, he didn't want to take the job. Firstly, he did not sympathize with the Bolsheviks, he supported the White Army, and secondly, the risk of failure was too great, which means that there was a great chance of being squandered. But somehow Zbarsky nevertheless persuaded him to write a letter to the commission with assurances that embalming is much preferable to freezing. And at the end of March they started working.

No matter how tearfully the widow Krupskaya asked to stop all manipulations with her husband’s body, no matter how angry letters she wrote, they did not plan to bury Lenin’s body, the case continued. Vorobyov and Zbarsky did a tremendous job: for three months they kept Lenin in various compositions - it was first formalin, then an alcohol solution, then glycerin and, finally, potassium acetate. In total, about 20 incisions were made in his body so that the composition would soak all the tissues, 5 holes were drilled in the skull, the eyes were replaced with glass beads, and the lips were sewn together.

In July, the commission demanded to present the results of the work. Despite Vorobyov's panic attacks, Ilyich's condition completely satisfied her. Lenin found himself outside the bath on August 1, 1924, when the doors of the new mausoleum, also wooden, were solemnly opened to citizens. Vorobyov and Zbarsky were paid 30 and 40 thousand chervonets, after which the first returned to Kharkov, and the second remained with Vladimir Ilyich as his custodian.

The stone mausoleum was built in 1930. A research institute was also created here, all the work of which was aimed at the best possible preservation of the body.

At the beginning of the war, Lenin, together with Zbarsky, was evacuated to Tyumen on a special train. The case was kept in the strictest confidence, and a camouflage false mansion was built over the mausoleum. The hospitable walls of the Agricultural College in the city of Tyumen were renamed the NKVD house, surrounded by a three-meter fence and surrounded by Kremlin guards. Reagents were regularly delivered there until the end of the war. One can imagine what enormous resources were spent on ensuring that Lenin remained “in good shape” even when the whole country was drowning in the fire of the Great Patriotic War.

In 1945, a terrible thing happened: during water procedures, a piece of skin on Lenin's leg was damaged. After this incident, all experiments with embalming were carried out exclusively on random corpses.

In 1992, V. Yeltsin canceled the guard of honor at the entrance to the Mausoleum. The research institute also survived the crisis, its traditional activities were no longer funded. By the way, according to some estimates, about 1.5 million dollars a year were spent on keeping the body of the late Bolshevik in uniform, as well as on the work of scientists, reagents, cooling devices.

Opinions of the people, is it necessary to bury V.I. Lenin today

In recent years, sluggishly, but often there have been disputes over the funeral of Vladimir Ilyich. The more persistent the position of the church in Russia, the more arguments in favor of burial, as required by the Christian rite. But such a decision can hardly be called wise. Even armed with healthy cynicism, one can imagine how much a crazy collector could pay for a body that is a symbol of a once powerful and great state. Although the authorities will never decide on this. Local historians in Ulyanovsk hope that Lenin will be sent to them, to his hometown - and this will be very useful in the context of the place where he lived in recent years.

Today, as in July 1924, the same coolness of a May morning is still in the Mausoleum, Vladimir Ilyich is still lying in a glass sarcophagus, and 15 light bulbs of the pink spectrum create the illusion of a healthy complexion.

What for? It is possible that the long-fallen borders of the Soviet Union look more unshakable. Or maybe so that the world looks at us and is afraid - what to expect from the people, who have been zealously guarding the corpse of their leader for 100 years, and not just guarding - charging fees from those who want to see the imperishable socialist idea in the flesh?

Only now queues of mainly Chinese tourists, and even schoolchildren, are stretching there. Our compatriots are not in a hurry to it - they are already used to it, they are not surprised. We are even calmer in our souls from the fact that he is lying there - and let him lie under the sensitive eyes of video cameras. According to the results of the poll, about a third of Muscovites are in favor of sending the great revolutionary to a well-deserved rest. Only no one is in a hurry to bury Lenin's grandfather, because the revolution is immortal.

Video why V.I. Lenin cannot be buried

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky once again raised the issue of burying Lenin's corpse. “I both believed and still believe that the body should be interred. I would follow all the necessary rituals. Since this is the highest official, if such a decision is made, the burial should be carried out with all the appropriate state rituals, honor, military salute, in a worthy place, ”Regions.ru reports the words of Medinsky.

According to the minister, the decision on burial has not yet been made because it would certainly reduce the votes for the authorities in the elections. “It will add a little, but it will definitely take away a lot of the electorate,” Medinsky believes. In his opinion, in the event of the burial of Lenin's body, the Mausoleum should remain part of the ensemble of Red Square. “He must be left. It is possible to make an open museum of Soviet history - it would be a very visited museum with expensive tickets,” the minister said.

V. Medinsky, recalls the publication, not for the first time touches on this topic: in January 2011, on the eve of the anniversary of Lenin's death, while still a member of the State Duma, he said: “I believe that every year we should raise the same question about the removal of the remains the body of Lenin from the mausoleum. This is some kind of absurd, pagan-necrophilic mission we have on Red Square. There is no Lenin’s body there, experts know that about 10% of the body has been preserved, everything else has long been gutted and replaced from there. But the main thing is not the body - the main thing is the spirit. Lenin is an extremely controversial political figure and having him as the central figure in a necropolis in the heart of our country is utter absurdity. Many are offended by rock concerts on Vasilyevsky Spusk, but we don’t even think about the fact that this is a double blasphemy - concerts are held on the territory of the cemetery. This is some kind of Satanism. (...) It is well known that Lenin himself was not going to build any mausoleums for himself, and his living relatives - sister, brother and mother were categorically against it. They wanted to bury him in St. Petersburg with his mother. But the communists did not care about the desires of both the leader himself and his relatives. They needed to create a cult that would replace religion and make something out of Lenin that would replace Christ. Something didn't work out. This perversion must end."

In this regard, the correspondent of the publication turned to the Orthodox clergy with the question: Why is the question of the burial of Lenin constantly discussed, but not resolved?

Archpriest Alexander Kuzin, cleric of the church of Cosmas and Damian in Shubin, recalled an episode from the Old Testament: “At the sunset of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the kings allowed pagan statues and idols to be placed in the courtyard of the Jerusalem temple. And for this, the Jerusalem state was captured by the conquerors and ruined. This is what sacred history says. What is Red Square? It is an inner courtyard, an open-air sanctuary. The place of execution is an altar, before large crowds of people stood there on Easter and prayed. And the fact that now for people obsessed with the fight against the Church is the fundamental issue of leaving this essentially pagan temple in the form of a Mausoleum, where Lenin’s mummy lies, this is a distortion of the sacred space of Holy Russia and Moscow as the center of Holy Russia. For believers, this is also a matter of principle: to restore that same sacred space in the center of Moscow. But not at the cost of scandals, provocations and destabilization of society. It should be a universal act of reconciliation.”

“As an Orthodox, I am in favor of the burial of Lenin, but I also know how far we are from this moment. If society matures, then it will happen the way we want. Therefore, I agree with Medinsky: I think he is wise enough to seek burial not at any cost and not by Bolshevik methods, since now we have a very unstable and disturbing situation, there are persistent attempts to organize riots and implement the "orange" scenario - in these conditions there is no need throw up reasons to scandal, ”the priest believes.

Hegumen Sergiy (Rybko), rector of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles at the Lazarevsky cemetery, believes that the whole thing is in the psychology of officials - “no matter what happens,” and their desire to “sit on several chairs.” “They behave so ambivalently, for example, on the issue of building new temples. They don't seem to mind, but for some reason they don't want to do anything. They are not really interested in the highest values, only the place for which they will sell both mom and dad. This mummy itself is dear only to elderly communists who have lost their minds - you can’t explain anything to them. But this is an absolute minority. Why do we all have to put up with this crap? We will not have any changes for the better until we give up the names of thieves and murderers on our streets and throw this mummy away. It is not necessary to bury her, but to shoot her from a cannon. If anyone needs it, let them take it. Let G.A. Zyuganov keep it in his apartment,” Father Sergiy believes.

Hegumen Luka (Stepanov), head of the theology department at Ryazan State University, believes that “when the undecomposed body of the executioner and destroyer of Russia lies in a place of honor, this defiles not only Red Square, but is also a continuation of the insult to the entire Russian people and the Orthodox community.” “There is no connection with the electorate here, and the next elections are only in 6 years,” he noted. “Of course, in many ways they prefer not to touch this issue in order to preserve the voices of older people. But I think the main problem is in the complete relativism and ideological disorientation of our authorities, who cannot call good good, and evil evil, and are also guided by corrupt imaginary Western values,” the pastor believes.

“We need a clear and distinct position on good and evil, which would be honestly and objectively broadcast by the authorities. But the triumph of evil still continues, and nature does not tolerate emptiness, including the nature of social consciousness. It is difficult to say how fruitful the statement of the current newly appointed minister will be. changes in the ideological policy of our authorities are not visible, but we pray that this state of affairs does not drag on, otherwise the consequences could be tragic,” Father Luka concluded.

Priest Alexy Agapov, rector of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, believes that “it is not for us, of course, to judge the degree of Lenin’s sinfulness, but the fact that his body has been on public display for so many years suggests that his sins were such that the body still could not be buried in a human way. So many years to toil! There is, apparently, for what. “It seems to me that for the communists themselves, the cult of Lenin and the mausoleum has long been no longer relevant. I don’t want to suggest re-reading Pelevin, but it’s really a mystery, why is it still like this? It would be funny if it weren't really so sad," he concluded.

Priest Andrey Posternak, director of the Traditional Gymnasium, candidate of historical sciences, noted that “the question of the presence of Lenin’s body and the mausoleum on Red Square is, in a sense, religious”: “After all, it is obvious that in Soviet times his body was an object of worship and reverence . It is a symbol of a certain ideology. And such an obviously religious symbol of the atheistic era, the communist "shrine", still adorns the main square of our country and is considered by many as an integral part of our modern life. This is wrong and unacceptable even from the point of view of a modern liberal-democratic society: an obvious attribute of a pagan religious cult is becoming a part of our life. Therefore, of course, the body of Lenin must be interred. It is necessary to stop his visible veneration in modern society.

“As for the mausoleum, it is an architectural monument of its era, associated with the name of Shchusev. It is not necessary to destroy it, but nothing prevents its transfer to another place - outside the city or on the outskirts. Moreover, it is necessary to restore the historical appearance of the Kremlin. This is, in particular, the restoration of eagles on the towers. The fear of finally resolving this issue is obviously connected with such an unhealthy conservatism of our society, which rather reflects our cowardice, and not fidelity to tradition,” the priest believes.

Hieromonk Tikhon (Zimin), a teacher at the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary, believes that "after all, we still have a lot of people who retain communist convictions." “These, of course, are already mostly elderly people - they are at least over 50,” he continued. - But for them, any procedures with the body of Lenin and the mausoleum will seem blasphemous, almost sacrilege, an attack on the most precious thing they have left. Therefore, now it seems to be inappropriate to do this. After a certain time, of course, it will be necessary to bury.

“As for the mausoleum, I don't think it has any cultural value. Let our descendants decide what to do with this building. When they deal with the burial, then they will decide what to do with the mausoleum. Maybe it should be left as a reminder of the bloody dictatorship so that this will never happen again,” Father Tikhon concluded.

It has been 93 years since the hour of death for Vladimir Lenin, and during all these years his corpse is in the Mausoleum in the center of Russia. Why hasn't Lenin been buried to this day? Let's take a closer look at this difficult question.

How it all began

The problem of burial of the leader of the proletariat was first discussed in 1923, during the life of Ulyanov. Why was Lenin buried in the Mausoleum?

Stalin at a meeting of the Politburo said that Ulyanov was not in the best physical shape. Iosif Vissarionovich raised the issue of embalming Lenin's body. Trotsky opposed this idea, linking it to the Orthodox tradition of honoring the relics of saints. Kamenev shared Trotsky's opinion, saying that Lenin would have been against any manifestation of "clergy". Bukharin was also skeptical about the exaltation of the body of the leader, believing that the ashes could hardly consecrate a place near the Kremlin.

When Lenin died, such skeptical thoughts were not voiced. In a few days, a wooden mausoleum was built, where Lenin's body was placed.

Family opinion

Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, publicly expressed her disagreement with such veneration of the leader. Her appeal was published in the Pravda newspaper. Krupskaya warned against erecting magnificent monuments and palaces for her deceased husband, arguing this opinion by the fact that Vladimir Ilyich himself did not attach importance to such things during his lifetime. Nadezhda has never been to the Mausoleum and never mentioned it in her writings and articles. The rest of the family was also against the mummification of the communist leader's body.

Some historians testify that Lenin himself wanted to be buried at the Volkovskoye cemetery in Leningrad, where his mother's grave is located. However, no documentary evidence of this will remains.

Bonch-Bruevich said that much later than Lenin's death, the views of his relatives on the form of burial of the leader changed. The idea of ​​perpetuating the image of Vladimir Ilyich so overwhelmed everyone that all opposing opinions were abandoned for the sake of the necessity of the masses of the proletariat.

post-war period

After the death of Stalin, a congress of the Communist Party was convened, at which it was decided to create a single monument for all the great Soviet people and place the remains of Lenin and Stalin there. However, the construction of the Pantheon stopped with the coming to power of Khrushchev and his policy of de-Stalinization. Khrushchev actively opposed the Stalinist regime as a whole, calling it the "mistake" of the ruler. Stalin's body was taken out of the Mausoleum and buried near the Kremlin wall, where it remains to this day.

perestroika times

Until the perestroika period, the question of why Lenin was not buried was not raised. In 1989, Mark Zakharov for the first time publicly began to talk about the need for burial. In his opinion, every person has the right to be buried after death, and no one can deprive anyone of such an opportunity. And all other phenomena are an imitation of paganism. In 2011, Zakharov once again expressed his opinion on the Dozhd TV channel.

After the collapse of the Soviet state, the topic of why Lenin was not buried again sounded in society. There was talk that the body of the leader should be buried underground. Petersburg mayor Sobchak became actively involved in the controversy. He communicated with Yeltsin and urged him to bury the body of the proletarian leader. Sobchak asked Yeltsin to issue a decree on burial, and promised to take on all the other chores. He wanted to hold a magnificent funeral ceremony, emphasizing the special place of the leader in the history of the country. But the head of state did not give consent to the burial.

Many politicians supported Mayor Sobchak in the idea of ​​burial, but believed that it was necessary to wait until the time when there were no ardent communists in the country. They answered Sobchak that the reassurance of Lenin would be connected precisely with the disappearance of inveterate communists.

In 1993, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov addressed President Yeltsin in an official letter, expressing the need to reconstruct the country's main square. Luzhkov insisted on the burial of Lenin and other personalities buried in the Kremlin. Unfortunately, Yeltsin did not respond to Luzhkov's appeal.

90s

The debated question of why Lenin was not buried continued to excite many Russian minds. In 1994, democrats led by Valeria Novodvorskaya organized a picket in the center of Moscow with a slogan about the need to bury the body of the communist leader. The authorities dispersed the picket and detained the participants.

In 1999, Yeltsin, summing up the results of his reign, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper emphasized the seriousness of the issue of Lenin's burial. He assured that the body would be buried, but it is not known when this will happen. Yeltsin answered the question of why Lenin was in the Mausoleum and not buried, linking this circumstance with the important role of this figure in the life of the state as a whole. Yeltsin also supported the Orthodox leader Alexy II in the idea that it was not in Christian tradition to show the body of the deceased. The President promised to carry out detailed work in this direction.

Our days

In 2000, activists of the Union of Right Forces proposed to build a complex on the basis of the Mausoleum in honor of historical figures and bury Ulyanov. Members of the LDPR party liked the initiative, but the State Duma did not accept the idea for consideration, declaring that it was untimely.

In 2005, director Mikhalkov said after General Denikin's funeral that Lenin's funeral should be the next step. However, again, the idea did not materialize.

In 2008, Mikhail Gorbachev also spoke in favor of the idea of ​​Ulyanov's burial, but did not insist on specific dates.

In 2011, Duma member Vladimir Medinsky again raised the question of why Lenin had not yet been buried. He said that the celebration of the anniversary of the death of the leader is a ridiculous event, dating back to pagan necrophilic traditions. Medinsky stressed that no more than 10% of Lenin's body remained. Medinsky was supported by the head of the CEC Andrei Vorobyov, recalling the Orthodox canons and human customs.

Vladimir Putin is very sensitive to this topic. When asked why Lenin has not yet been buried, he tactfully replies that there is no need to take steps that cause division in society. The current president pays great attention to the consolidation of modern Russian society.

Mausoleums of the world

Mausoleums have been known since ancient times and exist all over the world. In Turkey, in the 4th century BC, the first such building was built. The mausoleum became the tomb of the Carian ruler Mausolus, who became famous for either cruelty or justice. The tomb of the Mausoleum is today considered one of the wonders of the world, however, only ruins remained of it.

Known for a huge mausoleum in Vietnam, where the body of the communist leader Ho Chi Minh is located.

In China, the body of the revolutionary Sun Yat-sen is placed in an octagonal mausoleum. The tomb was built at the expense of citizens.

In Beijing in 1977, the embalmed body of Mao Zedong was preserved in the same way.

Mausoleums are known in Iran, North Korea, Cuba. As you can see, the Moscow mausoleum is by no means a unique creation.

Orthodox canons

Many Orthodox citizens, worried about why Lenin was not buried, justify their opinion with Orthodox traditions of burying the body underground. However, the historian Vladlen Loginov testifies that the repair of the Mausoleum was carried out with the consent of the Russian Church.

Moreover, in the history of Orthodoxy there are many such burials. For example, the body of the surgeon Pirogov after his death was embalmed, laid in a tomb, over which a temple was later erected.

Orthodox history knows many examples of surface burials. These graves are also located in temples. The Church does not deny the possibility of burial in shrines, which can be placed under the floor or stand on the floor. Many metropolitans and Orthodox saints are buried in this way.

In addition to cancer, acrosols were also used - niches in the temple walls. They were made open and closed, sarcophagi with bodies were placed in them. There are such acrosols in Kyiv, in Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky, in Vladimir, in Suzdal.

Orthodox burials were carried out not only in cathedrals, but also in special caves. Similar places have been preserved in Kyiv, Chernigov, near Pskov.

Athos monks are still buried without burial. After resting, the bodies are laid underground, after three years the bones are dug up and transferred to special rooms called ossuaries, where they are stored.

Catholic customs

Studying Christian traditions in general, it is worth mentioning the Catholic Church, which also successfully buries the dead not only by burial. So the monks are buried in the Spanish Escorial. In the niches of the cathedral there are sarcophagi with royal remains.

The body of Pope John XXIII was embalmed and placed in a sarcophagus, and later in a transparent coffin. Now it is kept in the Roman Cathedral of St. Peter.

Thus, the customs of Christianity do not at all provide for the obligatory burial of the body underground; options for embalming and burial on the surface of the earth are practiced. So, raising the topic of why Lenin was not buried, but placed in the Mausoleum, it is inappropriate to talk about blasphemy. Embalming the body of the deceased and putting it on public display within the framework of Christian traditions can in no way be considered blasphemy.

So, we have examined why Lenin is in the Mausoleum to this day. There are more questions than answers in this topic. But it remains to be hoped that time will be able to reveal these historical secrets.