Church of Spilled Blood in St Peterburg.
This church was built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. Alexander III set up a competition for the design, which had to
be of a "purely Russian style of 17th century". Alfred Parland, a Russian, won and work commenced in 1883 and took nearly 25 years to complete.
It is a breathtaking spectacle situated on the Kanal Griboyedova. Some of Lenin's friends wanted to demolish this monument to Tsarism, and it has
been just a warehouse for much of its life. After that, it housed the "Museum of the People's Will" to commemorate the terrorist act that founded
the building. Stalin then closed it and it is now reopened as a museum rather than a church.
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Church of Spilled Blood
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