Church sights in St Petersburg
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Chesma Church
East off Moskovsky pr is the striking red-and-white 18th-century Gothic Chesma Church, built from 1774 to 1780 in honour of Russia’s victory over the Turks at the Battle of Çesme (1770). Its relatively remote location is due to the fact that Catherine the Great was on this spot when news arrived of the victory, so that’s where she ordered the church to be built.
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Church of the Resurrection
Officially known as the Church of the Resurrection, this multidomed dazzler, partly modelled on St Basil’s in Moscow, was built between 1883 and 1907 on the spot where Alexander II, despite his reforms, was blown up by the People’s Will terrorist group in 1881 (hence its gruesome name).
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