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

Vladimir Tatlin and his assistants S. Dymshits-Tolstaia, T.M. Shapiro and I.A. Meerzon constructing the first 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): Sofia Isaakovna Dymshits-Tolstaia (1888-1963), [Tatlin], Tevel' Markovich Shapiro (1898-1984 or later), and Iosif Aizikovich Meerzon (1900-1941).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 15.2 x 11.1 cm sheet: 15.5 x 11.4 cm

PH1993:0213

• interior view

inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "Stroitel'stvo [underlined] / Bashni Tatlina [underlined] / 1920 g." [Building of [underlined] / Tatlin's Tower [underlined] / 1920 yr."; c.: "sleva-napravo: / Dymshits-Tolstaia, / Tatlin, Shapiro, Meerzon (vnizu)" [left-to right: / Dymshits-Tolstaia, / Tatlin, Shapiro, Meerzon (on the bottom)]; and l.r.: "arkh. Shapiro" [arch[ive]. Shapiro]

Saint Petersburg; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait

• model (representation)
• monument