Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has flown to Poland to attend the funeral of Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and his wife, the Kremlin press secretary said on Sunday.
Early on Sunday, a Polish military plane delivered the bodies of Kaczynski and his wife Maria to Krakow for burial.
Kaczynski and his wife will be buried on Sunday in the medieval Wawel castle, the final resting place of Polish royalty and many other distinguished citizens.
The first couple, who along with a delegation of senior officials died in a plane crash near the western Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, will be buried under the castle's Silver Bell Tower.
The Polish Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti that 81 official foreign delegations would attend the funeral of the country's first couple.
Bells and sirens rang out across Warsaw at noon on Saturday, as a crowd of some 100,000 mourners gathered in the city center to pay tribute to the first couple and 94 other people who died when their plane hit a tree and went down in heavy fog.
Residents were able to travel on the city transport free of charge. The ceremony was broadcast on five large screens around the city.
The ceremony began with the reading of the names and positions of the 88 Polish officials who were killed, and continued with a memorial mass in the city's largest square, Pilsudski Square.
Later, the coffins of the presidential couple were moved from the Presidential Palace, where they had been on public view since Tuesday, to St. John's Cathedral. The evening mass in the Cathedral was conducted by Archbishop of Warsaw Kazimierz Nycz.
The bodies of the first couple stayed in the Cathedral until Sunday morning, after which they were flown by a military plane to Krakow.
MOSCOW, April 18 (RIA Novosti)
