Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and co-founder of the Soviet state, died on January 21, 1924 at the age of 53 from a series of strokes.
Even 100 years later, the Soviet leader still looms large in the minds of some Russians.
Dozens of Russian communists gathered at Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the revolutionary leader’s death, holding flowers and chanting poet Vladimir Mayakovsky’s famous line: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives. , holding a banner reading “Lenin lives!”
The scene in the Lazuliw district on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, where Lenin took refuge during the violence of the 1917 revolution, was more serene, with a statue of the Soviet Union’s first head of state lying quietly in the snow.
Below are photos from Sunday’s commemoration ceremony.