Who would not want to own a life-size portrait of a rosy-cheeked, grandfatherly Lenin? The painting, among others of Soviet origin and vintage, are up for grabs this week at the Wotton Auction ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

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Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in the Moscow-area village of Gorki, after repeated strokes.

Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of pilgrimage ...