✨Saint Petersburg✨ 💖RUSIA💖
💟Saint Petersburg is one of the modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital.
"Church of the Savior on Blood"
👉 is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. Other names include the Church on Spilled Blood.
👉This church was built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was fatally wounded by political nihilists in March 1881.
👉The church was built between 1883 and 1907.
👉The city's architecture is predominantly Baroque and Neoclassical, but the Savior on Blood harks back to medieval Russian architecture in the spirit of romantic nationalism.
"Kazan Cathedral", Moscow
👉formally known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northeast corner of Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The current building is a reconstruction of the original church, which was destroyed at the direction of then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
👉Kazan Cathedral was considered one of the most important churches in Moscow.
👉After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kazan Cathedral was the first church to be completely rebuilt after having been destroyed by the Communists.
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