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

View of the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum during the latter stages of construction, Red Square, Moscow

between March and 1 May 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.: 16.9 x 21.7 cm sheet: 18.0 x 22.8 cm

PH1998:0001:029

• exterior view

numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.; "BAAIV 8941 KY" [backwards] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: with title; u.c.: "mavzolei - 3" [Mausoleum - 3]; and l.c. to l.r.: "Str[oitel'st]vo II derevian[nogo]. mavzoleia" [Con[structi]on of the II wood[en]. Mausoleum]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

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