Officially called The Church of the Resurrection, the more commonly referred to Church of the Savior of the Spilt Blood, was built between 1883-1907 on the bank of the Catherone Canal on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was mortally wounded in March 1881 by an explosion set to assassinate him.
It is considered a church-monument because it was never consecrated as a church. It was designed in the Russian style with the interior decorated in mosaic rather than paintings. Inside, there is more than 7,000 square meters of mosaics.
It was saved from Soviet destruction as a valuable museum of Russian mosaic.
Glad this one was saved. Beautiful.
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