From the first glance at the mausoleum, in which the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin, still rests, it becomes clear that its form is alien to Russian architecture. Meanwhile, it was built by the Russian architect Alexei Viktorovich Shchusev, who before the revolution was in the service of the Holy Synod, built churches and designed the iconostasis of the church in the name of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The more surprising is the form of the mausoleum, created by a Russian architect and far removed not only from Russian architecture in general, but also from Christianity in general. The mausoleum really resembles a pyramid - a cult structure of polytheists, whose priests, having placed a mummy at the base of such a burial vault, thus created a huge idol dedicated to the gods. In Red Russia, such a god was a certain New World and the deceased leader personifying it.
Pyramid - a tribute to fashion
The architects explain the strange appearance of the building by the fact that all over the world, including Russia, in the 19th century the Egyptian style came into fashion. This was due to many archaeological discoveries and a general interest in the culture of ancient peoples.
Art critic Vera Alexandrovna Dubrovina in her article "Interpretation of the architectural heritage of Ancient Egypt in early Soviet architecture" writes that at this time the fashion for hieroglyphs, sphinxes, pyramids and obelisks spread throughout Europe.
Even before the revolution in Russia, apartment buildings in both capitals began to be decorated in this style, Egyptian interiors and monuments on graves were created. After the revolution, the Bolsheviks turned to this style in full.
Did it have a spiritual meaning? Sure. Destroying Orthodox churches and throwing down crosses to the ground, they erected obelisks and pyramids, completely trying to change the face of the country.
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It is curious that the first distribution of pyramids and obelisks is associated with the French Revolution of 1789-1794. Art critics assert that the new era supposedly required exclusively new symbols, but it became obvious to knowledgeable people that for some reason the oldest symbols were used - pagan.
Ziggurat - pyramid for human sacrifice
The decision to build a tomb on the main square of the country was made four days after Lenin's death. Surprisingly, both projects that were submitted to the Bolshevik government were based on pyramids.
Preference was given to Shchusev's project, as he was famous for his ability to fit a new building into an already existing ensemble. Indeed, when, a few years later, a permanent stone structure began to be erected, the architect skillfully built the mausoleum into the ensemble of imperial architecture.
Even yesterday, who built Christian churches, Shchusev took a stepped ziggurat as the basis for the mausoleum - this form of a pyramid was common in pagan Ancient Babylon. In Egypt they were also used - the pyramid closest in shape to the mausoleum is the pyramid of Djoser of the Middle Kingdom era in Sakkara and the pyramid of Great Cyrus II (VI century BC) in Mesopotamia.
The shape of the pyramid had to be slightly changed - the desire of the leaders to make a platform out of the tomb and to host parades on it was taken into account.
Art critics believe that the stepped "laconic" shape of the pyramid simply "repeated" the teeth of the Kremlin wall and "perfectly harmonized" with the towers of Basil the Great's Cathedral, and blood-red granite created a certain general ensemble and "set off" the temple, the Kremlin and the building of the Historical Museum "completing the theme of the tiered pyramidal composition of the square”.
The total height of the mausoleum together with the basements was 36 meters - this is the height of a modern ten-story building. Only 12 meters above the ground, and the width of the visible part is 24 meters. The "sole" of the mausoleum is a square with a side length of 72 meters, the length of the diagonal is 104 meters, and the angle of inclination of the pyramid is equal to the classic 45.
This is not a mausoleum - this is an altar
People interested in spiritual matters believe that the Bolsheviks deliberately erected a ziggurat in the main square of the Red Empire. With this "new" old form, they not only wanted to emphasize the renunciation of the Old World, of the thousand-year history of the state that they destroyed, but also of Christianity. They may have used or would like to use it for direct occult purposes.
There is an assumption that Shchusev not only copied the shape of the ziggurat, he also laid special symbolism in the building plan, taking the Pergamon altar as a basis for the internal organization of the mausoleum, which Christians call the "Throne of Satan" - this statement is based on the "Apocalypse" of the Apostle John, in which the Lord addresses the Angel of the Pergamon Church with the words "You live where the throne of Satan is" (Rev. 2: 12-13). Theologians associate these words with the cult of Asclepius, in whose temple a huge serpent was kept, symbolizing the devil in Christianity.
This is indicated by the similarity of the plan of the buildings, the stepped ceiling of the mausoleum and the strange asymmetrical ledge on which the leaders of the USSR received parades. There is no architectural meaning in it, and it would be much more logical to place the leader in the center of the tribune, but there is exactly such a ledge on the Pergamon Altar - that is, it was copied from there by Shchusev.
Obviously, the architect, who previously served in the Synod, could not but know what exactly he was creating. Most likely, the Red leaders, who had the beginnings of theological education, also understood this perfectly. For example, Joseph Stalin studied at a theological seminary, and Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, in his youth, dreamed of becoming a priest.
Apparently, in 1930, a ziggurat was erected near the walls of the Kremlin, symbolizing the worship of demonic forces, and it was built specifically in the form of a sacrificial altar, to which an entire Christian country was brought.
It is quite obvious that the Bolsheviks were fighters against God. It is also clear that the ziggurat, built on the main square of the Red Empire, was to replace all Orthodox shrines. And he coped with this task - in the USSR, the queue to the mausoleum was always huge: every Soviet person, having arrived in Moscow, wanted to see - some out of curiosity, and some out of reverence, at the Lenin mummy created by Soviet science.
As for the assumptions of esotericists that the mausoleum in the USSR also served as an incomprehensible "energy antenna" controlling the consciousness of the masses, then it clearly did not cope with this function - it still stands in the heart of Moscow, and the USSR fell.
Maya Novik