View of the construction site of the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum before work commenced, showing construction materials, a monument, and the Upper Shopping Arcades, Red Square, Moscow

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
Alexandr Pomerantsev (architect)

Title:

View of the construction site of the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum before work commenced, showing construction materials, a monument, and the Upper Shopping Arcades, Red Square, Moscow

Date:

March 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.: 10.9 x 16.7 cm sheet: 11.6 x 18.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0001:016

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The sheet has been trimmed unevenly.

Inscription:

numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "BAA IV 8871 ky" [backwards] imprinted - in the image, u.r.: " GOSUDARSTVENNYI MOSKOVSKII / KHLOPCHATOBUMAZHNYI TREST" [STATE MOSCOW / COTTON TRUST; on the building sign] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei - 3" [Mausoleum - 3]; and in pen and blue ink, u.r. to b.: "8[?]8-29-47" [within rectangle]; "1) chetv[erg]. - c 1 KHan. [underlined] / utro polit zd. / Partarkhiv [underlined] / 2) Piatn[itsa]. [underlined twice]" [1) Thurs[day]. - with 1 Khan. [underlined] / morning polit[ical ?] buil[ding ?] Party archive [underlined] / 2) Fri[day]. [underlined twice]; sideways]

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

museum
square (open space)
monument
building site
shopping arcades

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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