• Unknown (photographer)
• Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
• Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)
• Matvei Fedorovich Kazakov (architect)

View of the stone Lenin Mausoleum with the Senate Tower and Senate Building in the background, Red Square, Moscow

before 22 June 1941 ?

- 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.: 15.9 x 23.2 cm sheet: 16.8 x 24.2 cm

PH1998:0001:055

• exterior view

inscribed, numbered and dated - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l. to t.: "Arkh[itektu]ra Mavzoleia VI Lenina." [Arch[itectu]re of VI Lenin Mausoleum.]; u.c.: "mavzolei - 5" [Mausoleum - 5]; and l.c. to l.r.: with title and "Dovoennyi snimok" [Before-war picture.]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

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