• Unknown (photographer)
• Alexandr Pomerantsev (architect)
• Ivan Martos (designer)

View of the Upper Shopping Arcades from the Kremlin Wall [?] with the monument to Minin and Pozharsky and a Kremlin tower in the foreground, Red Square, Moscow

1919

- 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.: 15.3 x 22.4 cm

PH1998:0001:004

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, c.l. to c.r.: with shop and business signs [on the building] inscribed, numbered and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "Mavzolei-1" [Mausoleum-1]; u.c.: with title; c.l.: "I - 2470." [sideways]; and c.: "1919" [sideways]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• tower (single built work)
• square (open space)
• curtain wall (fortification element)
• monument
• shopping arcades