• Unknown (photographer)
• Tevel' Markovich Shapiro (role unspecified)
• Iosif Aizikovich Meerzon (role unspecified)
• Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin (role unspecified)

Vladimir Tatlin and his assistants I.A. Meerzon and T.M. Shapiro constructing the first model for the monument to the Third International, Petrograd, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)

between March and 7 November 1920

- This photograph shows Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) (bottom right) with two assistants from the "creative collective" which was organized so that he could continue work on the Monument to the Third International design while the model was being constructed (the model was completed for the third anniversary of the October Revolution, 7 November 1920). The assistants are (top to bottom): Iosif Aizikovich Meerzon (1900-1941), and Tevel' Markovich Shapiro (1898-1984 or later).

Gelatin silver print

composition: 29 x 18.2 cm sheet: 29.8 x 19.6 cm

PH1993:0212

• interior view

inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.c.: "Stroitel'stvo Bashni / Tatlina / 1920 g." [Building of Tatlin's / Tower / 1920 yr.]; and "sleva-napravo: / Meerzon, Shapiro, Tatlin" [left-to right: / Meerzon, Shapiro, Tatlin]; and l.r.: "arkhiv Shapiro" [archive Shapiro, line on top]

Saint Petersburg; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait

• model (representation)
• monument