• Unknown (photographer)
• Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
• Marco Ruffo (architect)

View of the construction site of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum showing workers with the Nikol'skaya Tower (Nicholas Tower) in the background, Red Square, Moscow

between 25 and 27 January 1924

- 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.: 11.1 x 16.5 cm sheet: 11.8 x 17.4 cm

PH1998:0001:008

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, c.r.: "NISHANSKII / PRIBAL [?] GVOZD [sic] / ZAVOD" [NISHANSKII / [?] NAIL / PLANT; upside down, on a box] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "mavzolei -2" [Mausoleum - 2]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• tower (single built work)
• mausoleum
• square (open space)
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• building site
• frame construction