 One month before filing the "Palace of Labor", Leonid Vesnin presented his drafts of a housing block, marked by clever rational floorplans but otherwise fairly conventional.This fact, and the existence of early "Palace of Labor" sketches drawn by Alexander Vesnin are, according to Khan-Magomedov, evidence that the Palace was primarily inspired by Alexander.Catherine Cooke arrived at the same conclusion by examining Alexander's elaborate stage set for Alexander Tairov's production of "The Man Who Was Thursday"