Russian Utopia: a depository

Lenin Mausoleum (motto: Cast Iron)
Tarasov V. Lenin Mausoleum (motto: Cast Iron) 1925

RACDMH

On the Red Square, against the backdrop of the horizontal Kremlin Wall, in the very centre where the tower soars up to the vertical, underlined by a black memorial plaque, below, on along black tombstone-like slab will be inscribed, as is the case now, “LENIN.”
The entire central part, in the proportions of its architectural forms and the details of its workings, should create the impression of the apex of the architectural volume, which is spread out in huge halls where the leader’s ashes rest in the bowels of the earth. The simple monumental shapes of the mausoleum, with spreading horizontals below the tower, will be very striking, strengthened by their contrast to the vertical memorial tablet. The iron or bronze tablet along the entire wall of the tower with its sculptures and inscriptions, will imprint on people’s memories the heroism of our struggle.
From the mausoleum’s central mass, as if underlining the whole Kremlin wall with a thick black line, abuts a socle of brother graves with large staircases by the side towers and mausoleum. This high socle, in its shape, processing of building materials, united with the mausoleum, subordinates all of Red Square to itself, and in dominating it thus, becomes the dominant area of the square.

Utopia Foundation, Moscow




		`Tarasov V. Lenin Mausoleum (motto: Cast Iron) 1925` RACDMH On the Red Square, against the backdrop of the horizontal Kremlin Wall, in the very centre where the tower soars up to the vertical, underlined by a black memorial plaque, below, on along black tombstone-like slab will be inscribed, as is the case now, “LENIN.” The entire central part, in the proportions of its architectural forms and the details of its workings, should create the impression of the apex of the architectural volume, which is spread out in huge halls where the leader’s ashes rest in the bowels of the earth. The simple monumental shapes of the mausoleum, with spreading horizontals below the tower, will be very striking, strengthened by their contrast to the vertical memorial tablet. The iron or bronze tablet along the entire wall of the tower with its sculptures and inscriptions, will imprint on people’s memories the heroism of our struggle. From the mausoleum’s central mass, as if underlining the whole Kremlin wall with a thick black line, abuts a socle of brother graves with large staircases by the side towers and mausoleum. This high socle, in its shape, processing of building materials, united with the mausoleum, subordinates all of Red Square to itself, and in dominating it thus, becomes the dominant area of the square.