Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs. |
Gardens, especially those surrounding a mausoleum, are often laid out in an eightfold shape reminiscent of Paradise. |
Massive in scale, three stories and fifty meters high, it appears as much a palace as a mausoleum. |
Today, entombment or inurnment in a mausoleum is available to most anyone, and more affordable than ever. |
There was the mausoleum, with LENIN spelled out over the door in red, the first word I'd learned to read in Cyrillic. |
The standard stone could be graced with a small LCD TV while a more extravagant mausoleum might be equipped with a high-definition plasma screen. |