• Unknown (photographer)
• Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
• Alexandr Pomerantsev (architect)
• Ivan Martos (designer)

View of a May Day parade in Red Square with the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum in the foreground and the Upper Shopping Arcades and monument to Minin and Pozharsky in the background, 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.: 17.4 x 23.1 cm sheet: 18.4 x 24.1 cm

PH1998:0001:045

• exterior view

imprinted and dated - in the image, u.r.: with inscription in Chinese [on a banner]; "RABOCHIE / VSEGO MIRA / NE / OTDAVAITE / REVOLUCION- / NOGO / KITAIA / NA / RASTERZANIE / IMPERIA- / LISTOV!" [WORKERS / OF THE WHOLE WORLD / DO NOT / GIVE AWAY / REVOLUTIO- / NARY / CHINA / TO / BE RIPPED TO SHREDS / BY IMPERIA- / LISTS!; on a banner]; and " VYSHE ZNAMIA LENINA! / ONO NESET NAM POBEDU!" [KEEP LENIN'S FLAG HIGHER! / IT BRINGS US VICTORY!; on a banner]; and u.r.: "1 / MAIA" [1 / MAY] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso; t.: "mavzolei - 4" [mavzolei - 4]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• mausoleum
• square (open space)
• monument
• shopping arcades