Vladimirskaya Church, Our Lady of Vladimir Church (Saint Petersburg)

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, Church on Spilt Blood, Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

On 1 March 1881, Ignaty Grinevitsky, a member of the People's Will terrorist organization, let off a bomb in Yekaterininsky Canal Embankment and gravely wound Emperor Alexander II, who was on his way back from the parade in Mikhailovsky Manege. As early as in 15 days after the assassination, a temporary mobile chapel, designed by Leon Benois, was c...

Evangelical Lutheran Church of SS. Peter and Paul Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

On 27 December 1727, Tsar Peter II granted land in a desert area near Nevsky Avenue, between Bolshaya Konjushennay and Malaya Konjushennaya Streets, to a German Lutheran Community. The foundations of a church were laid on 29 June 1728, the SS. Peter and Paul's Day. The project was implemented by Carlo Giuseppe Trezzini. On 14 (25) June 1730, ...

Church of the Resurrection of Christ Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

A rail road to Peterhof began from Baltiysky Rail Terminal. Nearby, next to Warsaw Rail Terminal, on the bank of Obvodny Canal, stands a huge building of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, built according to a design by architects German Grimm, Gustav von Goli, and Andrei Huhn from 1904 to 1908. Its style resembles the 17th-century modernize...