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

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

1954 ?

- 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.: 23.1 x 17.2 cm sheet: 23.9 x 18.4 cm

PH1998:0001:058

• exterior view

inscribed, numbered and dated - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, t.: "Arkh-[itektu]ra Mavzoleia V.I. Lenina" [Arch-[itectu]re of V.I. Lenin Mausoleum]; u.c.: "mavzolei - 5" [Mausoleum - 5]; and l.c. to l.r.: with title and "foto 1954 g[oda]." [photo 1954 y[ear].]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

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