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

View of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum, 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.: 16.5 x 23.0 cm

PH1998:0001:014

• exterior view

- The inscription on the banner is partially obscured by the building.

imprinted - in the image, u.c.: "VSIA ZHIZN' VLADIMIRA IL'ICHA - PRIM[ER ? ...] / ZA OSVOBOZHDENIE CHELOVECHESTVA OT [...]" [ALL VLADIMIR IL'ICH'S LIFE - AN EXAM[PLE ? ...] / FOR FREEDOM OF THE HUMANITY FROM [...]; on the banner]; and c.: "LENIN" 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)
• monument
• building site
• tomb slab