Wikipedia entry for Lenin
VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV LENIN, “who gave himself the name of Lenin, was born at Simbirsk on April 10, 1870. He was the son of a small landowner. He died after a long and painful illness on January 21, 1924, at Gorkii near Moscow, as First People’s Commissary of the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic. He took part at an early age in Russia’s revolutionary movement and was exiled to Siberia in 1897; he fled abroad, reappeared in the Revolution of 1905, and was once more a refugee in 1907, living and working in London, Germany, and Switzerland. From the time of his arrival in Russia in 1917 this ex-barrister and agitator compelled his people and the whole world to attend to his words.”
“The death mask was taken a few hours after Lenin’s death by the sculptor Merkurov and is kept in the Lenin Institute in Moscow. His mausoleum in the Red Square in Moscow is something equivalent to the caaba of Bolshevism. (Fritz Schotthofer: Lenin dc’r Mcnsch, Frankfurter Zeitung, January 25, 1924; Valeriu Marcu: Lenin, Leipzig, 1927.)”
Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.