• Unknown (photographer)
• Aloisio da Carcano (architect)
• Antonio Gilardi (architect)
• Marco Ruffo (architect)
• Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)
• Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood (architect)
• Alexandr Pomerantsev (architect)

View of Red Square showing the Kremlin Wall and towers on the left, the Historical Museum in the center, and the Upper Shopping Arcades on the right, Moscow

early 20th century

- 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.

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 16.5 x 22.4 cm sheet: 17.4 x 23.3 cm

PH1998:0001:002

• exterior view

- There are traces of glue and light blue paper on the verso of the photograph.

inscribed, numbered and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei-1" [Mausoleum-1]; and u.c.: with title

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• museum
• square (open space)
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• towers (single built works)
• shopping arcades