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MOSCOW (AP) — Visitors are banned to photograph Vladimir Lenin's diminished anatomy in the catacomb on Red Aboveboard — but nearby, Sergei Soloviev is blessed to action an alternative.
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On best days, the man who bears a abutting affinity to the Bolshevik baton hangs out abreast the access to the aboveboard cat-and-mouse to affectation for tourists for a baby fee. With his mustache, bristles and a collapsed atramentous cap accoutrement his baldheaded head, Soloviev's affinity is able alike if his face lacks the beady acuteness of the absolute Lenin's.
He's usually in the caliginosity of the adorned red-brick State Historical Museum, on a banal aisle amid Red Aboveboard and the adjoining Manezh Square, one of the best tourist-dense genitalia of Moscow. There's generally a man who impersonating Josef Stalin with him, forth with one or two added Lenin doppelgangers.
Soloviev speaks with pride about how those others were afflicted back he aboriginal showed up in 2000.
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"One of the added Lenins said 'Oh look, actuality comes my competition,'" he said.
How does a being become a Lenin impersonator?
Soloviev says that in 1999 he began to feel like Lenin and started growing the bristles and mustache. Back he went to his job as a metalworker at a car shop, his bang-up said "Shave! We accept a dress cipher ... we don't charge a Lenin."
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He eventually absent the job, noticed added impersonators and went to work.
Soloviev attracts a lot of looks, but abounding of them don't go added and pay his requested 100 rubles ($1.75) for a photo.
He complains that abounding Chinese tourists, for whom Moscow is an more accepted destination, appear with bout operators who acquaint them the Soviet impersonators will try to rip them off. This offends both his account and his faculty of what he's worth.
["388"]"Can't you accord 100 rubles for Lenin?" he asks.
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