Title

Design for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, USSR, c1931-c1933. Artist: Alexander Karra

Caption

Design for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, USSR, c1931-c1933. The Palace of the Soviets was intended to be an administrative complex and conference hall, which was planned to be built on the former site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which was demolished by the Communist authorities in 1931. A competition to design the building was staged between 1931 and 1933, and was won by Boris Iofan. Construction began in 1937, but stopped when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and was never resumed. Found in the collection of the State Scientific A Shchusev Research Museum of Architecture, Moscow.

Date

1931

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Fine Art Images

Reference

HRM19D91_014

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50,3Mo (5,6Mo) / 31,6cm x 39,8cm / 3737 x 4704 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings interior indoors government architecture arts politics country art color colour design location century drawing communist Moscow Russia Russian inside plan auditorium proposal thirties communism concept USSR Soviet Union grandiose 1930s political party Soviet 20th century TGN lithograph Communist Party Stalinist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Palace of the Soviets Alexander Karra Alexander Yakovlevich Karra Fine Art Images Karra Alexander lithograph