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🏛 Church of the Savior on Blood

наб. канала Грибоедова, 2Б

A colorful church in the Old Russian style with enamel and gilded domes on the spot where Alexander II was wounded.

The church, 81 meters tall, took 24 years to build — from 1883 to 1907.
Alexander III rejected the designs of two competitions and approved the design by Alfred Parland and Archimandrite Ignaty (Malyshev).
The mosaics were made by Vladimir Frolov's workshop from sketches by more than 30 artists, among them Viktor Vasnetsov and Mikhail Nesterov.
During the siege the church was used as a morgue, and after the war as a scenery warehouse of the Maly Opera Theater.
In 1961 steeplejacks found a German high-explosive shell in the central dome, which had lain there for 18 years.
The museum opened on 19 August 1997 — exactly 90 years after the church was consecrated.

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