Lenin's Tomb

Lenin's Tomb is along the Kremlin wall across Red Square from the Gum. It's only open for tours two days a week for about four hours each day so we didn't get a chance to go inside. Our guide said that she thinks his body is still in there somewhere but that what you see when you go in is really a wax figure. Although most other monuments to the Communist era have been taken down or destroyed, they will keep him there as long as he attracts tourists!

I didn't walk over to see it, but behind Lenin's tomb is the Kremlin necropolis (cemetery). Most of the Communist leaders from the past several decades are buried there as well as the American John Reed. (He was the subject of the movie "Reds".)