🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral

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A yellow-and-white Empire-style guards' cathedral with five domes, rebuilt by Stasov.

The first church was built in 1743–1754 in memory of the Preobrazhensky Regiment placing Elizabeth Petrovna on the throne.
In 1796 Paul I gave the cathedral the honorary title of “cathedral of the whole Guards”.
In August 1825 the cathedral burned down, and Vasily Stasov rebuilt it in the Empire style by 1829.
The fence of 1832–1833 was assembled from 102 barrels of captured Turkish cannons, set muzzle-down.
The fence barrels still bear the Turkish names of the guns — for example, “Wrath of Allah” and “I Give Only Death”.
The cathedral was never closed for services, even in Soviet times.
On the feast of the Transfiguration, the Apple Saviour, a fruit market used to be held by the church.

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