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

Group portrait of six officials [?] standing on the tribunal adjacent to the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum during a May Day parade, Red Square, Moscow

between 1 May 1924 and June 1929

- 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 22.0 cm secondary support: 16.7 x 22.7 cm sheet: 16.7 x 22.7 cm

PH1998:0001:040

• exterior view

- Pinholes at corners of photograph. The l.r. corner of the photograph is damaged.

imprinted and dated - in the image, t.: "1 / MAIA / LENIN" [1 / MAY / LENIN]; and c.: "ZNAMIA- LENIN / O[illeg.] - LENINIZM / ZAD[ACHA ?] MIROV[OI] / R[EVOLU]TSI[I]" [FLAG - LENIN/ O[illeg.] - LENINISM / AI[M] OF THE WOR[LD] / R[EVOLU]TI[ON]] stamped - in black ink, on the print, verso, c.: "IZ R [illeg.] KH VA / No" imprinted - on the secondary support, verso, l.r. to c.r.: "Negativ i otpechatok: E.Bomon. Moskva." [Negative and print: E.Bomon. Moscow; vertically] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, t.: "mavzolei-4" [Mausoleum-4]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait

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