View of the 'Church of the Resurrection of Christ' (also known as the 'Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood') in St.Petersburg, Russia, a Russian Orthodox church, which currently functions as a secular museum and church. The structure was constructed between 1883 and 1907 on a place, where had been made a terrorist act on the emperor Alexander II in March 1881 The church was funded by the Romanov imperial family in honor of Alexander II.
The imposing church designed by Leontiy Benoit was constructed in such a way that the part of the sidewalk, where Alexander II lay dying, became the part of the church and the date of the terrible event was immortalized in the construction’s height of 81 meters.
New building technologies of the time were used in the construction, and the whole building was electrified, which was not common for the begging of the XX century.
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