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1922 May 26 |
Lenin suffers his first stroke that left him partially paralyzed |
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1922 November 20 |
Lenin's last public speech |
| 1922 December 15 |
Lenin suffers his second stroke |
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1922 December 24 |
Politburo orders that Lenin be kept in isolation |
| 1922 December 30 |
Formal establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) |
| 1923 March 2 |
Lenin writes his last document, Better Fewer, But Better, on the reorganisation and reduction in size of the Soviet government. |
| 1923 March 9 |
Lenin suffers his third stroke and is no longer able to speak. |
| 1923 May 12 |
Lenin removed to a Party sanitorium at Gorki city. |
| 1924 January 21 |
Lenin dies from fourth stroke. |
Lenin's chief physician, Dr. Aleksei Ivanovich Abrikosov, performed an autopsy revealing the cause of death to be a brain hemorrhage
resulting from severe arterial sclerosis.
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On the orders of Joseph Stalin, his body was preserved for posterity by using a secret embalming method.
His internal organs were removed. His body was then injected with formalin and immersed in a formalin bath.
His body was then dried and repeatedly immersed in a bath of glycerine, potassium acetate, water and quinine chloride.
Lenin wears a waterproof suit under his uniform that holds in the embalming fluid, and his hands and head are bathed in fluid twice a week.
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Lenin was brought to Moscow on a special funerary train. In Moscow Lenin lay in state in the House of Trade Unions, where thousands of
visitors spent hours queued in the freezing cold to file past and pay their respects to the father of the revolution.
The official funeral was held on January 27.
Lenin Mausoleum
The first temporary, wooden building was opened January 27, 1924, near the Senate Tower of the Kremlin in Red Square.
This building was a step-like pyramid with staircases adjoining it at two sides.
The construction of the stone Mausoleum began in 1929. Visitors enter the main entrance and descend the left staircase into the
memorial hall. The hall is cubic in form. Visitors move along the low podium around the sarcophagus from the three sides, exit the
memorial hall, ascend the right staircase, and exit the Mausoleum through the door in the right wall.
The frame of the building is reinforced concrete; the walls are filled with brick and faced with polished marble, labradorite, porphyry,
and granite.
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