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View of the construction site of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum showing the access wings of the mausoleum and the Kremlin Wall in the background, Red Square, Moscow
View of the construction site of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum showing the access wings of the mausoleum and the Kremlin Wall in the background, Red Square, Moscow
People:
  • Unknown (photographer)
  • Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
  • Antonio Gilardi (architect)
  • Aloisio da Carcano (architect)
  • Marco Ruffo (architect)
  • Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)
Title:

View of the construction site of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum showing the access wings of the mausoleum and the Kremlin Wall in the background, Red Square, Moscow

Date:

between 25 and 27 January 1924

Description:

- Photographs PH1998:0001:001-058 show images of Red Square in Moscow before and during the construction of the three Lenin Mausoleums designed by A. Shchusev (before construction: PH1998:0001:001-004; the first wooden mausoleum: 25 - 27 January 1924, PH1998:0001:005-010 and PH1998:0001:012-015; the second wooden mausoleum: March - 1 May 1924, PH1998:0001:017-050; and the third stone mausoleum: June 1929 - 12 October 1930, PH1998:0001:051-058). Photographs PH1998:0001:001-058 also show images of some of the buildings in Red Square, including: the Kremlin Towers, Nikol'skaya Tower (Nicholas Tower), Spasskaia Tower, Corner Arsenal Tower, and Senate Tower; the Upper Shopping Arcades; the Historical Museum; Saint Basil Cathedral; the monument to Minin and Pozharsky; the Voskresenskie Iverskie Gates (Resurrection Gates); and the Senate Building.

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 11.6 x 16.5 cm sheet: 12.1 x 17.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0001:009

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The sheet has been trimmed unevenly.

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "mavzolei -2" [Mausoleum - 2]

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:
  • architecture
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • tower (single built work)
  • mausoleum
  • square (open space)
  • curtain wall (fortification element)
  • monument
  • building site
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Howard Schickler et David Lafaille/
Gift of Howard Schickler and David Lafaille
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