Red Square - recent closure

[russell8335]

I was in Moscow last week, and Lenin's mausoleum was closed along with most of Red Square. Why was this? There were a lot of pipers and drummers around but no explanation as to why.

[vehelpfulguy]

A search in Google for "Red Square Moscow" found this under "News"

http://www.russiatoday.ru/entertainment/news/1 4069

[nickmo]

And if you can't be bothered to link, it was a tattoo, like what Edinburgh does......

Red Square....entertainment.....wouldn't have said that very often in one sentence 20 years ago.....

[netibiza]

I was there also at that time, and was disappointed that it looked so small with all the fences and seats. Beautiful though wasn't it??