Church on the Blood

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St. Petersburg
Peterhof 
THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
KAZAN CATHEDRAL
 The Bronze Horseman
ADMIRALTY
Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo)
Peter the Great’s Summer Palace
Church on the Blood
Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul
NEVSKY PROSPEKT

 

This church is known to Petersburgers as the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood - or even just the Church on the Blood - as it marks the spot where Alexander II was fatally wounded in an assassination attempt on March 1, 1881. Designed by Alfred Parland in the style of 16th and 17th-century Russian churches, the Church of the Resurrection provides a stark (some would say jarring) contrast to its surroundings of Baroque, Classical and Modernist architecture.