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

View of Red Square from an elevated viewpoint showing the Upper Shopping Arcades, Saint Basil Cathedral, the Spasskaia Tower, the Senate Tower, and the stone Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow

between 1948 and 1952

- 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.: 15.4 x 23.2 cm sheet: 16.9 x 23.6 cm

PH1998:0001:056

• exterior view

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei - 5" [Mausoleum - 5]; u.r.; "ris 5" [dr[awing] 5]; c.r "Zamenit'" [To change; underlined]; and with title stamped - in purple ink, on the print, verso, c. to l.c.: "A[VTORSKOE] PRAVO / PRINADLEZHIT / FOTOKHRONIKE TASS" [AUTHOR RIGHT / BELONGS TO / PHOTOCHRONIC TASS; within rectangle]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• apartment house
• mausoleum
• square (open space)
• cathedral
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• towers (single built works)
• shopping arcades
• tribunals (platforms)