him right in
the forehead.

And then he was cremated. And his ashes were thrown into one of those graveyards in Moscow,
where so many of his victims` ashes had also been thrown.

LAMB: Where is Stalin today?

MONTEFIORE: He is -- he is apparently quite well preserved, but against the Kremlin Wall,
buried under the Kremlin Wall. There`s a statue of him there, behind Lenin`s Mausoleum. But no one -- no
tour guide will point it out to you.

LAMB: And Lenin is still in his tomb?

MONTEFIORE: Lenin is still in his tomb, yes.

LAMB: When you say the Kremlin, you`ve been there?

MONTEFIORE: Yes.

LAMB: Did you go through -- I mean, explain what the Kremlin is?

MONTEFIORE: Well, the Kremlin is fascinating. It isn`t like the White House. It`s not one
building. It`s 69 acres. It`s sort ofCaucuses, and that got me interested in history. I was a
columnist for "The Sunday Times" in London and "The Spectator." I wrote a lot for "The New Republic"
here, and mainly on Russia. And then I started to write history books. I became a historian, a full-time
historian.

And my first history book was Prince Potemkin, Catherine the Great`s lover. And that was based
on correspondence that no one had ever really seen before as well. And that`s when -- that`s a great story,
that`s the great sort of -- one of the great love stories of all of history, Catherine and Potemkin. Forget
Anthony and Cleopatra or Napoleon and Josephine. Those were amazing people.

LAMB: Did, did you have an interpreter when you would interview people like Marfa Peshkova?

MONTEFIORE: Yes. I used an interpreter