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

View of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum showing wreaths, flower arrangements, banners, and a tomb slab, 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.: 13.5 x 18.4 cm sheet: 14.1 x 19.1 cm

PH1998:0001:012

• exterior view

- The sheet has been trimmed unevenly. The inscriptions on banners are partially obscured by the building and the tomb slab.

imprinted and dated - in the image, u.l.: "ZA" [FOR; on the banner]; c.: "LENIN"; "[?]OR / [?]NOI / VOLE / TVOEI" [[?] / [?] / YOUR / POWER; on the banner]; and "1924 / 21 / 1 / [illeg.] / [illeg.] / Il'ichu" [on the tomb slab]; c.r.: "XXIII" [within a star]; "Lubimyi Vozhd' / Vladimir Il'ich ! / Velikie tvoi za- / vety nezyblemo / budem khranit'. / Nachatoe toboi de- / lo klianemsia dove- / sti do konca. / Trudiashchiesia / Riazanskoi gub. / 27/1 - 1924 g." [Dear Leader / Vladimir Il'ich! / Your great per- / cepts we will / treasure firmly. / You started pur- / suit which we swe- / ar to finish. / Workers / of Riazan reg[ion]. / 27/1 - 1924 y[ear].]; and "Dorogomu / Il'ichu / ot vospitannikov / domov Rabochego D[?] / imeni / [V.]I. Lenina" [To dear / Il'ich / from wards / of the homes of Worker's [?] / [V.]I. Lenin / works] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "mavzolei -2" [Mausoleum - 2]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• mausoleum
• square (open space)
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• tomb slab