• Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bal'termants (photographer)
• Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (architect)
• Postnik (architect)
• I. Barma (architect)
• Pietro Antonio Solario (architect)

View of Red Square showing the tribunals adjacent to the stone Lenin Mausoleum in the foreground and Saint Basil Cathedral and the Spasskaia Tower in the background, Moscow

printed 1949 ?

- 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.: 22.6 x 16.5 cm sheet: 24.2 x 18.3 cm

PH1998:0001:057

• exterior view

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "mavzolei - 5" [Mausoleum - 5]; c.l.: "B - V [underlined] / 54."; c.l. to l.l.: "foto Dm[itria]. Bal'terman" [photo by Dm[itrii]. Bal'terman; vertically]; and l.r.: "5" stamped, numbered and dated - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: "Institut Istorii i / Teorii Arkhitektury / Reg. No 19 g."; and by an unknown hand, in pen and purple ink, l.r.: "527/ / 2826 / 49" [Institute of History and / Theory of Architecture / Reg[istration]. No 527/ / 2826 / 1949 y[ear].] stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: with illeg. stamp

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

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

© Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bal'termants