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.