Memorial museum "Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood"

About museum

In the center of Saint Petersburg, on the bank of the Griboyedov Canal, the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, known as the "Savior on Spilled Blood," attracts attention. It was built in 1883–1907 to a design by architect A. Parland and Archimandrite Ignaty Malyshev on the site of the fatal wounding of Alexander II. Consecrated in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the church is a unique monument of Russian architecture and monumental-decorative art of the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Inside the cathedral one can see a unique mosaic floor, the iconostasis, kiots (icon cases), as well as Altai and Ural varieties of jasper, rhodonite, porphyry, labradorite, Italian marbles and serpentinite. The gilded and enameled domes covering more than 1,000 sq. m, numerous mosaic icons, 134 coats of arms of the provinces and cities of the Russian Empire created by 32 artists, and the canopy over the site of Alexander II's fatal wounding give the church its distinctiveness. It houses one of the largest mosaic collections in Europe, covering over 7,000 sq. m.