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 Auction ...

What confused ideas does the name "Lenin" conjure up to the mind of the man in the street! Russian and Bolshevik, of course, and probably fanatic, anarchist, tyrant, genius, as well. Yet how few have ...

Mosaic portraits of the former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were removed from a water tower in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, on Thursday, April 7, in response to Russia’s ...

Russian art restorers on Friday unveiled a recently discovered portrait of the last Tsar Nicholas II, almost a century after it was hidden behind a giant painting of his Bolshevik foe Lenin. A team of ...

How Bashkiria became home to the so-called "Communist answer" to America's Mount Rushmore and what happened to a sculpture of Stalin on the Trans-Siberian Railway. We do not know exactly how many ...

Soviet Union founder Lenin is depicted in a huge portrait A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as ...