Old Bolsheviks

The former house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician and Red Army founder Leon Trotsky on Istanbul?s Büyükada Island is up for sale on a real estate website.  

Buried and long forgotten, the head of a giant Lenin statue is set to make a comeback in the German capital a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Soviet leader will gaze again on the people when the 3.5 ton piece is resurrected from its current grave, a sandpit under a pile of rocks home to a colony of lizards.

Two of Russia?s most iconic historical figures came to blows close to Moscow?s Red Square when a Stalin double allegedly attacked a Lenin lookalike over a work dispute, police said on July 7. 

For many years, attempts at finding the photo of Apollinariya Yakubova, the woman considered by many historians as Lenin’s true love, proved futile.

The face of the woman that Lenin seems to have fallen in love with while he lived in London used to be unknown until recently.