View of Red Square showing the tribunals adjacent to the stone Lenin Mausoleum in the foreground and Saint Basil Cathedral and the Spasskaia Tower in the background, Moscow

People:

Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bal'termants (photographer)
Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
Postnik (architect)
I. Barma (architect)
Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)

Title:

View of Red Square showing the tribunals adjacent to the stone Lenin Mausoleum in the foreground and Saint Basil Cathedral and the Spasskaia Tower in the background, Moscow

Date:

printed 1949 ?

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.: 22.6 x 16.5 cm sheet: 24.2 x 18.3 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0001:057

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei - 5" [Mausoleum - 5]; c.l.: "B - V [underlined] / 54."; c.l. to l.l.: "foto Dm[itria]. Bal'terman" [photo by Dm[itrii]. Bal'terman; vertically]; and l.r.: "5" stamped, numbered and dated - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: "Institut Istorii i / Teorii Arkhitektury / Reg. No 19 g."; and by an unknown hand, in pen and purple ink, l.r.: "527/ / 2826 / 49" [Institute of History and / Theory of Architecture / Reg[istration]. No 527/ / 2826 / 1949 y[ear].] stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: with illeg. stamp

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

tower (single built work)
square (open space)
cathedral
curtain wall (fortification element)
tribunals (platforms)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal; Don de Howard Schickler/Gift of Howard Schickler

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