• Unknown (photographer)

View of Sverdlova Square (now Teatral'naia Square) showing the subway station under construction surmounted by a large wooden figure of a worker and surrounded by hoardings, with the Bol'shoi Theater in the background, Moscow

1934

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 11.9 x 16.4 cm secondary support: 20.3 x 30.0 cm

PH1998:0020:063

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, u.r. and c.l. with [illeg.] building signs labelled, numbered, imprinted and dated - in typescript, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, u.c. to c.l.: "Neg.No [sic] 4065" [underlined]; with title; "1934 g." [1934 y[ear].]; and "Tema: Zhilkompleks / sotsgoroda." [Topic: Hous[ing]complex of / soc[ialist]city.] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and blue ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "926." [diagonally] and "4065" [underlined; diagonally; crossed out]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• figure (representation)
• sculpture
• subway station
• square (open space)
• monument
• theatre