• Unknown (photographer)
• Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (subject)
• Alexandr Pomerantsev (architect)

View of Lenin's funeral showing the coffin and soldiers on a podium and the Upper Shopping Arcades in the background, Red Square, Moscow

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.: 16.1 x 22.5 cm sheet: 16.4 x 22.9 cm

PH1998:0001:011

• exterior view

- The sheet has been trimmed unevenly.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, b. to l.r.: with title

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• square (open space)
• funeral
• shopping arcades
• podium (platform)
• coffin