LENIN'S NEW TOMB IN MOSCOW.
10,000 TONS OF GRANITE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —St SfcICTBIO TELE OS APH—CO PTRIOHT.) MOSCOW, November 11. Lenin's tiny embalmed body has been laid in the new tomb in Rod Square. The tomb is constructed of 10,000 tons of red, grey, and black granite, and, though it is the largest polished granite structure in the world, costing more than Napoleon's tomb, it tooK only 16 months to build. The body lies in a hall of threecoloured granite, clothed in the faded khaki tunic on which the order of the Bed Banner is pinned over the spot where ihe heart used to be. The body is kept in a glass case, with a Ilea sentry always on guard. Lenin's brain was kept at the Lenin Institute, where it wfa cut for scientific purposes into 33,000 slioes by a German professor.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 11
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