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Aleksey Levykin, Vice-Director of Scientific Research, received the certificate of candidacy from Bernard Weber. Mr. Levykin accepted it for the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve “The Moscow Kremlin” and its General Director Elena Yu. Gagarina, daughter of Russian icon Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
PUSHKIN MUSEUM 100 YEAR'S OLD
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Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art is marking its hundreth anniversary.
It houses world renowned art and artefacts from antiquity to the modern day.
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Jacques-Louis David's painting - the Portrait of Alphonse Leroy shows his subject as a writer, a thinker and someone who had his finger on the pulse of society in 1783.
It's one of several world famous paintings that adorn the walls of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art in the Russian capital.
Also on show: the Portrait of Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez, bearing a staff of command and wearing a general's sash.
Plus there's Happy Family by Louise Le Nain, dated 1642.
For one hundred years the museum has educated and entertained Muscovites and visitors to the city.
An historical retrospective of the museum's life is now on show pointing out the highlights of the museum's past 100 years.
The centenary exhibition includes photos, films and historical documents.
It charts the social and political changes the museum has undergone since it opened in 1912.
Head of the Manuscript Department at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art Margarita Aksenenko says preparing the centenary exhibition was a huge task.
100 years is a date with round figures and as with any institution it's worth celebrating and telling the story of our history. We faced many difficulties preparing this exhibition that our history. It (the history of the museum) is massive, dramatic and with many levels and to put it in an exhibition format was very difficult. This exhibition is a summary, a condensed version. Nevertheless here are present the main periods and events that explains all parts of this long 100 years story.
Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art Irina Antonova says the museum has pieces from around the world.
This is a museum of global artistic culture. It's peculiarity is that here we have art from around the world, foreign art, but also large collections of Russian art especially graphics, Numismatics (the study or collection of currency), and, if you include the museum's private collections, painting as well. The main theme of museum is the dialogue of cultures.
Head of Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World Vladimir Tolstikov says he is very proud of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art.
Our museum has contributed to the nation's science, art, museum management studies and to the enlightenment of our nation. That's has happened since the beginning of it's existence in 1912 until today.
Director of the Liechtenstein collection in Vienna, Austria Johan Kreftnann, says over the years the museum has provided the Russian people with a valuable resource.
Here (in Russia) people couldn't travel so much in that period, so people could come to this place and study things. It's a unique situation for students, for children here to go and to see world objects on one place, connected. Especially what's in the Renaissance gallery for instance, also in the Antique Gallery here. What's here collected in one place, you can compare things as you can never do except the exhibitions in other foreign places so it really make sense what happens.
The largest museum of European art in Moscow looks set to continue its success well into the future.
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Russia | Heritage Sites of Russia | World Of Heritage
Russia is filled with magnificent iconic sites that preserve both its history and cultural heritage. The most important site in Russia is Moscow. Moscow is famous for its historic Red Square and the 16th century's St. Basil's Cathedral. This colourful building is shaped like a flame that rises into the sky which is now turned into a museum.
Other places to visit can include St. Petersburg, The Winter Palace, The Marble Palace and the Hermitage. One must also visit Russia's first capital Novgorod.
The Heritage sites of the world are celebrated for having great cultural or historical significance, and it doesn’t hurt that they are also often majestic and awe-inspiring.
Every country has its own monuments and cultural heritage, which you can explore in our series World of Heritage. This series also features all the celebrated heritage sites on our planet as decided by the UNESCO.
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A. S. Pushkin Museum Preserve
Pushkin’s poetical motherland is considered to be Zakharovo and Viazemy estates near Moscow as he spent his childhood here. At these very places Pushkin saw the beauty of Russian nature, peasants’ ritual dances, heard folk songs, saw the life of rich and province upper class people for the first time. Here he formed his life outlook, began to write his first poems. It is the place of his formation as a national poet. Pushkin came back to these places at the most difficult periods of his life.
Nowadays there is the State historical and literary museum preserve of A.S. Pushkin at the territory of two estates. Coming to these places you can wander the ancient parks paths where the great poet walked as well as breathe this magic air and touch the dumb witnesses of the poet’s childhood – marvellous architecture monuments which are united in a whole XVI—XIX centuries palace and park ensemble: the Transfiguration church, belfry dated the end of XVI century, palace and two wings dated the XVIII century, household outbuildings, parks, ponds of the XVI—XIX centuries. In total there are more than 20 historical and cultural monuments on the territory of Viazemy.
These places are related to the key events if the Russian history: the Time of Troubles, Peter’s transformations, 1812 Patriotic War, Civil War and Great patriotic War. Boris Godunov, Lzhedmitriy I, Petr I, Pavel I, Kutuzov, Napoleon, Bagration, N.V. Gogol, L.N. Tolstoy, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova and many other world known people came here.
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Russia opens new Stalin museum
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1. Wide of a group arriving for a tour to the museum commemorating former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
2. Wide of exhibit of a reconstructed room from a typical Russian house from 1940s
3. Mid of museum director Lidiya Kozlova giving a tour
4. Close of a book on a table with title page reading (Russian) Table Calendar 1941
5. Mid of a radio and a samovar
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lidiya Kozlova, Director of the museum:
For our region it's a big event. According to the documents it was Stalin's only visit to the front. And it happened in this region. Here this museum tells about the events that happened near the city of Rzhev during the days of the Great Patriotic War (Russian term for World War Two) and about the events that happened at the Rzhevsko-Vyazemsky bridgehead where Nazis ruled for almost 14 months. And here everywhere around, as Mikhail Ivanovich Nozhkin (a Soviet actor and writer) said, great, tough and long battles were happening.
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9. Mid of a painting of Stalin
10. Tilt down of photos of Stalin
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12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lidiya Kozlova, Director of the museum:
Each of us wants our state to be strong. And I always ask the following question: Can a strong state be ruled by a week president, a week head of the state? It can't be that way. So that the government became strong, the head of state has also to be smart, strong and sometimes even tough. Because today the current situation demands that. And in the time when Joseph Stalin ruled the country, the situation demanded this 100 times more.
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14. Mid of two posters, with titles reading (Russian) (left) Tehran and (right) First Fireworks
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21. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Zubarovsky, tour guide:
We had the gulag. We had other mistakes. People were punished. But our soldiers went into the attack. They were rising for the motherland, for Stalin. And that happened in this region. He is a kind of a flag which lead us to the victory. And he may have had mistakes, but we know them, and our pupils know about these mistakes. We tell them about them, we are not hiding them. And we also say about the glory he brought to us.
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23. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasilisa Lishinskaya, 21-year-old mother of two children:
Whatever the person was, anyway somewhere deep in the soul he is good. And if the commander is good, then he will lead out his troops to the right path.
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As the 137th anniversary of the birth of Josef Stalin is marked on Friday, the retelling of the former Soviet leader's triumphs have become increasingly fashionable during troubled times in Russia.
A bust of Stalin stands outside a house-turned-museum in the village of Khoroshevo, in the Tver region, where he is said to have stayed the night on his only visit to the front during World War Two.
Groups of students look around the two-room building where Stalin strategised with his generals in August 1943 as the Red Army battled to drive out the Nazi troops.
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Ancient Jewish Library Welcomed to New Home in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre as an important collection of ancient Jewish books, the Schneerson library, arrived on Thursday. The President familiarised himself with the most valuable parts of the collection, which contains some 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.
The transfer follows years of debate with the New York City based Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community who demand the return of the library. The movement argues they are the right owners of the books, as the author of the collection, Schneerson, headed the organisation after moving to the United States. However the transfer of the Schneerson library was welcomed by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, who called it a big day for Russian Jews.
Russia has maintained that it will keep the collection, saying that it is a state property and part of Russian culture. The matter got into the media spotlight in January after a US judge ordered Russia to pay $50,000 (€37,000) per day until it returns the library. The decision to move the collection to Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre was proposed by Putin himself this year during a meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations.
Moscow's Jewish Museum and Centre of Tolerance was opened in November 2012, with Israeli President Shimon Peres travelling to Moscow for its inauguration. It features several interactive displays regarding the Jewish peoples' long and tumultuous place in Russian history. Now home to the the Schneerson library collection, the museum's new library department operates as a part of the Russian State Library.
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Russian royal treasures on rare show (26.10.2014)
Take a step back in time to the royal court of Russia in the 18th Century when you visit the Museum of History’s newest exhibition.
Visitors can get up close and personal with more than 200 items on loan from the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve of Russia, which include paintings, costumes, porcelain and weapons that were used by well-known historical figures such as Russian Empress Catherine the Great and French Emperor Napoleon.
Regal ride
One of the highlights of the exhibition is the four-seater carriage and harnesses made especially for the 1856 coronation of Russian Emperor Alexander II in Moscow. This will be the first time the complete set of six harnesses and the carriage have been seen in public for 100 years. The Romanov dynasty celebrated 300 years on the throne in 1914 and were the last ones to ride in it.
A close look at the roof corners reveals heraldic double-headed eagles. Curator Irina Bredikhina explained that the eagles were symbols on the royal coat of arms and were crafted in such a way that people could see them from any angle as the carriage drove past. They are also featured on the harnesses.
Weighing a mighty six tonnes, Ms Bredikhina said the coronation carriage had never been dismantled for fear of breaking it, so it was placed on a tailor-made platform and transported in one piece from Russia in a cargo plane. A crane was used to gently place it into the Museum of History.
The carriage still works, although the curators advised against attaching horses to it and going for a ride.
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A beautiful Chinese lacquer vase China’s last emperor Puyi presented to Russia’s last emperor Nicholas II in 1909 was one of the first pieces selected for the exhibit.
“Because our museum is first of all a former imperial residence and this was the last gift from the last Chinese emperor to last Russian emperor, for our exhibition this vase became symbolic,” said Head of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve of Russia Exhibitions Department, Liudmila Kanaeva.
It dates back to the era of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796) and was made using a technique from the Ming dynasty.
The priceless vase comes in four parts, which Ms Kanaeva said made it much easier to transport.
Portable security
Much less hassle to transport, but of equal historical value is a travelling weapon set that was presented to Russia’s Emperor Alexander I by none other than French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807.
The head of Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve of Russia’s Military History Department Georgy Vvedensky said the set was a gift from Napoleon after the two warring sides agreed to make peace.
Noted French gunsmith Nicolas-Noel Boutet made the portable weaponry during the height of his craftsmanship. Napoleon was so impressed by Boutet’s work that he hired him as his personal gunsmith.
Royal robes
Most people have heard of Catherine the Great – the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, whose reign was referred to as the “Golden Age” - but not many people have seen the clothes she wore.
Visitors to the Museum of History can take a look at Empress Catherine II’s military uniform dress. It is one of only 10 known uniform dresses that belonged to her – four are under the care of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve of Russia, another four are in Saint Petersburg museums, and two are believed to be in private collections around the world.
Museum of History Director Susanna Siu said it took about three years and around $17 million to organise the exhibition.
Tsarskoye Selo was a former royal residence turned into a museum, and Ms Siu hopes that by seeing its exhibits, visitors will gain a greater insight into the splendour of Russian court life and into the broader political and cultural developments in Russia’s history Tsarskoye Selo has borne witness to.
The Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo, Residence of the Russian Monarchs Exhibition runs at the Museum of History from October 29 to March 16. (
Мост дружбы. Mos Kreml- Ufa - Kazan.
Kremlin is the oldest part of the city, the main socio-political, spiritual, religious, historical and artistic complex of the center of the capital, the seat of the President of the Russian Federation. Located on the high left bank of the Moscow River - Borovitsky hill at the confluence of the River. Neglinnoy. In terms of the Kremlin - the wrong triangle area of 27.5 hectares. The southern wall facing the Moscow River, north-west - the Alexander Garden, the east - to the Red Square. The oldest archaeological finds in the Kremlin date back to the 2nd century BC Slavic town on the site of the Kremlin by the end of XI century.; Chronicles first mention of Moscow - 1147. Castle (the ancient name of town or city of Moscow, the name Kremlin did not appear until the XIV century.) Originally occupied the south-western extremity of the hill (about 1.5 hectares), it was held at the western moat modern facade of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Built on the orders of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky in 1156 city covers an area of 5-6 times larger than the original, and was surrounded by a moat and rampart. In 1237 during the Mongol-Tatar invasion, the Kremlin has been destroyed. Its further development is connected with the growth of Moscow as the capital city of the Principality, and then the capital of the Russian state. At the end of XIII - the beginning of XIV century. built the first stone church (including the Church of the Savior on Bor, 1380, was reconstructed several times, until the XVI century.), initiated the formation of the architectural center of the Kremlin. In 1339 the walls and towers built of oak. The Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy stone walls were built (1367, hence the name - Moscow white stone), finally secured a leading architectural significance of the Kremlin as the center. In the second half of the XIV - early XV centuries. stone construction going on, the victims were recovered during the raid Tokhtamysh walls and towers, based Miracles Monastery (stone church was built in 1501-03) and the Ascension Monastery. In the second half of the XV century., When Moscow became the political and the Moscow Kremlin in 1156 was reinforced shaft, and in 1367 erected the walls and towers of white stone, in 1485-95 - of brick. The tower was in 17. now existing bunk and tent complete. The Kremlin Moscow premium monuments of Russian architecture of 15-17 centuries. Cathedrals - Assumption (1475-79), the Annunciation (1484-89) and Archangel (1505-08), the belfry Ivan the Great (1505-08, added in 1600) , Facets (1487-91), Terem Palace (1635-36). In 1776-87 the building is constructed of the Senate in 1839-1849 - the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1844-1851 - Armory. In 1959-61 he built the State Kremlin Palace (formerly the Kremlin Palace of Congresses). Among the 20 towers of the Moscow Kremlin's Spasskaya most significant (with the Kremlin chimes), Nicholas, Trinity, Borovitskaya. Remain remarkable monument of Russian art foundry - Tsar Cannon (16.) And Tsar Bell (18.). In 1991, a State Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve The Moscow Kremlin. In the Moscow Kremlin is the residence of the President of Russian Federatsii.steny Kremlin, Trinity Tower, Trinity Bridge, Trinity Square, the State Kremlin Palace, Arsenal and the top of the Terem Palace and the prisons of churches, Patriarch's Palace. Kutafya Tower, Corner Arsenal Tower, Middle Arsenal Tower. Palace Street. The prospect of the street; Fun Palace, Cavalry Building, the State Kremlin Palace.
PM Netanyahu and Russian President Putin at Jewish Museum in Moscow
ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו ונשיא רוסיה ולדימיר פוטין בביקור במוזיאון היהודי במוסקבה, שם סיירו בתערוכת סוביבור-מנצחי המוות לציון 75 שנים למרד במחנה ההשמדה סוביבור.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and toured the Sobibor: Victorious over Death exhibit.
וידאו: עומר מירון, לעמ
סאונד: בן פרץ, לעמ
Art Pushkin museum, Ilya Glazunov art gallery, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
street Volkhonka in Moscow
#13. 100 Чудес России. Тобольский кремль
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Тобольский кремль — единственный каменный кремль в Сибири, уникальный образец сибирского зодчества. В ансамбль Тобольского кремля входит Софийско-Успенский собор с ризницей, колокольня, Архиерейский дом, башня и стены, Рентерея, комплекс здания бывшего дворца Наместника, Гостиный двор. Тюремный замок и подгорные стены Прямского взвоза — сооружения XVIII. Все перечисленные выше здания и сооружения являются памятниками истории и культуры федерального значения. Город Тобольск был основан в 1587 году. В XVII века он стал столицей Сибири, в XVIII столетии — центром самой большой в России Тобольской губернии. Первый тобольский острог был выстроен из разобранных казачьих стругов. Москва всячески поощряла здесь каменное строительство. В 1683-1686 году присланными из Москвы и Великого Устюга каменщиками с подмастерьями Герасимом Шарыпиным и Гаврилой Тютиным создается каменный Софийско-Успенский собор. К началу XVIII века были возведены каменные стены и башни кремля, а также ряд не дошедших до нашего времени построек, стоявших на одной западной линии с Софийским собором. Переезд в 1925 году в Архиерейский дом краеведческого музея благотворно сказалось на сохранении памятников кремля. В 1939 году Тобольский кремль был признан архитектурно историческим памятником, подлежащим государственной охране. В 1952 году было выявлено прогрессирующее разрушение кладки и составлен проект реставрационных работ. В 1961 году Тобольский музей получил статус историко-архитектурного музея-заповедника. Ему на баланс были переданы все памятники кремля и города.
Travel Tip Tuesday ~ Moscow, Russia
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Here we go! Tip #1: RED SQUARE
Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. It separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter.
Tip #2: Saint Basil's Cathedral
The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, built by Ivan the Terrible.
Tip #3: ARMORY MUSEUM
The Kremlin Armory is one of the oldest museums of Moscow, established in 1808 and located in the Moscow Kremlin. The Kremlin Armory originated as the royal arsenal in 1508.
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The State Historical Museum near to red square Moscow
The State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of prehistoric tribes that lived on the territory of present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. The total number of objects in the museum's collection comes to millions.
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“Forgive This Eternal Wandering Jew!” - Oligarch Boris Berezovsky’s Letters to Putin REVEALED!
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The heady air of the Foggy Albion is quite toxic for those inclined towards political adventures. The runaway oligarch Berezovsky is among those that didn't end well, having tried to undermine Russia while living in London. Last year, a well-known Russian banker Pyotr Aven published a hefty book The Time of Berezovsky. The head of Alpha Bank shared his personal accounts of those times with Nailya Asker-Zade in the program Actors. The program will air on our channel tonight after midnight. Here's a fragment.
President Putin Russian National Security Council KREMLIN ARMOURY Carroll Foundation Trust Affair
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President Putin Armoury Museum Kremlin Moscow: Russia's Historical Heritage:
I am convinced that the new generation has been endowed with a huge responsibility by their ancestors, by historical memory, and by the history of their Fatherland.References to one's national past strengthen our nation's spiritual and moral bases and provide it with force and self-confidence. And therefore preserving our country's cultural and historical heritage, allowing younger generations to get to know this wealth, and the upbringing of youth themselves all constitute national tasks.
Tasks in which the state, society, representatives from different religions, and patrons of the arts should work together.
Your work also serves this noble purpose.And in their third century the Moscow Kremlin museums shall be recognized as a centre of world culture that corresponds both with today's requirements and its valuable educational mission. Its treasures are available to visitors and the museum is open to new projects, to the very closest cultural exchanges and international cooperation.I think that today all of us are united by one feeling, a feeling of pride that our country has such an invaluable cultural monument. And a deep gratitude towards the people that help protect this wealth.
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The sensational Carroll Foundation Trust and Carroll Maryland Trust multi-billion dollar offshore tax fraud bribery scandal which is now encircling Wall Street New York and the City of London banking institutions has revealed that President Putin has also joined the chorus of growing concerns which surround the inordinate delays to the arrests and prosecution of one of the the most dangerous trans-national crime syndicate operations in living memory.
Sources have confirmed that the explosive FBI Scotland Yard cross-border criminal “standard of proof” prosecution files contain a startling litany of twenty eight forged and falsified UK Companies House and State of Delaware “registered” Carroll Trust Corporations which are “centered around” the fraudulent incorporation of Russian Investment Corporation conglomerate structures.
Further sources have disclosed that the dossiers contain a compelling evidential paper trail which surrounds the systematic break-ins burglaries theft and seizure offenses that were “targeted” at the Carroll Foundation Trust’s priceless Kremlin Armoury Museum national treasures collections which were stolen by the UK Business Angels HSBC International crime syndicate spanning a bizarre eight to ten years.
The Carroll Foundation Trust files are held within a complete lockdown at the FBI Washington DC field office and the Metropolitan Police Scotland Yard London under the supervision of the commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe who is known to have an intimate knowledge of this case which stretches the globe.
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Communists outraged over possible Lenin burial
27 October 2005
1. Various of demonstrators walking with banner and chanting (in Russian) Hands off Lenin and Shame on Poltavchenko! (prominent aide to Russian president)
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Udaltsov, leader of AKM (Avantgarde of Communist Youth):
A great number of people in our country respect Lenin and would see these actions by the authorities as a signal to start the war.
3. Scuffle between police and demonstrators
4. Police arresting people
5. Police pulling on woman
6. Photographer scuffling with police
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7. Soldiers in front of mausoleum
8. Various of Vladimir Lenin's body in mausoleum
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Activists turned out on the streets of Moscow on Thursday, in protest at plans to move the body of legendary revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
The demonstrators want Lenin to rest in peace in his Moscow mausoleum, instead of being removed and buried in a grave as proposed by the Russian authorities.
Protesters from the AKM (Avantgarde of Communist Youth) rallied in the streets, chanting Hands off Lenin! as they made their way to the presidential administration buildings near the Kremlin.
Sergei Udaltsov, an AKM leader, said their aim was to show Georgy Poltavchenko, a prominent aide to Putin, that an initiative to rebury Lenin could lead to a civil war.
It was Poltavchenko who recently told a news conference: Our country has been shaken by strife, but only few were held accountable for that in their lifetime. I don't think it's fair that those who initiated that strife remain in the centre of our state near the Kremlin.
Poltavchenko said his opinion was strictly personal. But in the tightly controlled culture of the Kremlin, officials rarely sound off to no purpose.
His comments were seen as a way of testing public reaction to the idea of burying Lenin, an idea that Putin himself is thought to favour.
The protesters approached the administration building and then police stepped in, rounding up protesters and arrested them.
For more than six decades, glorious military parades and throngs of solemn Soviet citizens passed by the Red Square mausoleum where Vladimir Lenin's mummified corpse lies under glass.
Now, nearing the 15th anniversary of the death of the Soviet Union, a debate is raging about whether it's time to bury the body of the man who was such a key architect of Soviet communism.
The debate isn't new. What's different this time is the rumour that President Vladimir Putin himself is in favour of a burial.
He's often accused of taking Russia back to old Soviet ways, and removing the father of the Soviet Union from public display could be a way of deflecting the criticism.
The aura of the mausoleum has been dimming for years.
The long lines of devoted pilgrims have given way to small knots of visitors, largely foreign tourists, entering the hushed, austere dark red stone structure.
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