Built in 1883-1907, the Cathedral got its awkward name because it was built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was murdered in 1881.This Moscow-style church looks a bit out of the place in the very European part of St.Petersburg, but it is still one of the city’s most beautiful landmarks. The interiors are richly decorated with different sorts of Italian marble and Russian semi-precious stones. The ceiling and the walls are utterly covered with mosaic panels made to designs by outstanding Russian painters. With its total area of some 7000 square meters, this is the world’s largest mosaic. Called sometimes by locals ‘the mosaic church’ because of the rich colors of its onion-shaped domes, it was renovated in the early 1990s and was reopened as a museum in 1997.

Open: 11:00 – 18:00

Closed on Wednesdays

Address: Naberezhnaya kanala Griboedova 2b

The nearest metro stations: Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospect

Phone: +7 (812) 315 16 36

www.cathedral.ru