• Unknown (photographer)
• Tevel' Markovich Shapiro (role unspecified)
• Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin (role unspecified)
• Iosif Aizikovich Meerzon (role unspecified)
• Sofia Isaakovna Dymshits-Tolstaia (role unspecified)

Group portrait of Vladimir Tatlin and his assistants I.A. Meerzon, T.M. Shapiro and S. Dymshits-Tolstaia at the time of the construction of the model for the Monument to the Third International, Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg)

between March and 7 November 1920

- This photograph shows Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) with three assistants from the "creative collective" which was organized so that he could continue work on the Monument to the Third International design while the model was being constructed (the model was completed for the third anniversary of the October Revolution, 7 November 1920). The assistants are (left to right): Iosif Aizikovich Meerzon (1900-1941), Tevel' Markovich Shapiro (1898-1984 or later), and Sofia Isaakovna Dymshits-Tolstaia (1888-1963).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 10.0 x 13.7 cm secondary support: 11.0 x 14.8 cm

PH1993:0211

• interior view

dated - by an unknown hand, in blue ballpoint pen, on the secondary support below the image, l.r.: "20 g." [20 y[ear].] inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, t. to c.: "cleva napravo: / Meerzon, Shapiro / Tatlin, Dymshich- / Tolstaia. / 1920 g." [left to right: / Meerzon, Shapiro / Tatlin, Dymshich- / Tolstaia. / 1920 y[ear].] ; and l.r.: "arkhiv Shapiro" [Shapiro's archive; outlined]

Saint Petersburg; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait