ca. 1890–1900Moscow
Red Square
Photographer not named. A colored photographic print in an album. Not filed as a photochrom.
Street photograph
ca. 1890–1900·Moscow
Red Square
Photographer not named. A colored photographic print in an album. Not filed as a photochrom.
Street photograph · Altered
What this plate shows
A photograph of the square, colored, mounted in an album. St Basil’s, the monument still in the middle of the open ground, the Spasskaya tower and the wall. About 1890–1900. A camera on the square. Not a drawing, and not a photochrom filed in its place.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- St Basil’s Cathedral, the Minin and Pozharsky monument, and the Spasskaya tower, on Red Square.
- Region
- Russia
- Documented completion
- St Basil’s, 1561. Spasskaya tower, 1491, with later crowns. The monument, 1818.
- Architect
- St Basil’s: Barma and Postnik, in the usual attribution. Not named on this print.
- Present status
- Altered — St Basil’s and the Spasskaya tower still stand. The Minin and Pozharsky monument was later moved from the middle of the square to a place nearer the cathedral. The color is on the print. The photographer is not named. The date is a range.
- Source
- Rijksmuseum, RP-F-F01126-K (CC0). Catalog range about 1890–1900. The album mount is kept.
- License
- CC0 1.0.