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

Partial view of the second wooden Lenin Mausoleum before demolition showing the stairs to the left tribunal and two guards, Red Square, Moscow

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.: 16.8 x 21.7 cm sheet: 18.1 x 22.6 cm

PH1998:0001:050

• partial view
• exterior view

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l. to t.: "Arkh-[itektu]ra Mavzoleia VI Lenina" [Arch-[itectu]re of VI Lenin Mausoleum]; c.r.: "1" [circled]; and l.c.: with title

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• mausoleum
• tribunal