Walk Through History at Gorki Leninskie
Located outside Moscow, the estate of Gorki Leninskie offers fascinating insight into the eventful life of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) – the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and later the first actual, but unofficial, leader of the Soviet Union. In acknowledgement of his role in Russia’s political history, in 1999 Time Magazine named Vladimir Lenin as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. His political and economic theories, which built on the ideas of Marxism and are known as Leninism, form the foundation for the ideology of Soviet Communism.