• Unknown (photographer)
• I. Barma (architect)
• Postnik (architect)
• Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)
• Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)

View of Red Square in winter with Saint Basil Cathedral, the Spasskaia Tower and the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum in the background, Moscow

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.: 17.5 x 23.1 cm sheet: 18.5 x 24.1 cm

PH1998:0001:048

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, c.: "LENIN" [on building façade] inscribed, numbered and dated - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei - 4" [Mausoleum - 4]; u.c.: "1929 g." [1929 y[ear].]; and l.r.; "1929 god." [1929 year.]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

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