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 Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |  Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |  Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |
 Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |  Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |  Saviour-on-Blood Cathedral |
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General information
| Destination | Duration | Category |
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| Saint Petersburg, Russia | 1 hour, 30 minutes | Private Excursion |
Program details
The amazingly beautiful Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, or the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ on Spilled Blood - another visiting card of St. Petersburg - was built in 1907. It was erected as a monument to the Tsar Alexander II, who was mortally wounded in March 1881, in the same place where the temple rises. It took 24 years to build it, and now the former church has a museum status. A visit to the Cathedral of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg is an obligatory part of the tourist route in the Northern capital. After all, not only the appearance of the temple is remarkable, but also its interior decoration. More than 30 artists, including such talents as Vasnetsov, Nesterov and Belyaev, worked on the creation it. The collection of mosaics, that adorn the walls of the cathedral, is one of the largest in Europe. It decorates not only the walls, but also the vaults of the temple and its domes and the iconostasis. Here you can see precious gems and other unusual rocks and materials. Our professional licensed guide will te ll you the dramatic history of the cathedral and the historical figures, associated with it.
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