Visit to the Museum-monument "Savior-on-the-Blood Church"
This marvelous Old Russian-style church was built on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated on March 1, 1881. Built in 1883-1907 (chief architect Alfred Alexandrovich Parland), the church was designed in the spirit of sixteenth- and seventeenth century Russian architecture, inspired particularly by St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow.
The interior of the church, a memorial to the late Emperor Alexander II, was decorated with different marbles and several thousand square yards of mosaics. After the October Revolution of 1917 the church met the sad fate of most churches in the country. Now it has been restored and reopened to visitors. |
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