A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. The inside is covered from floor to ceiling with more than 7,500 square metres of mosaics.
It's on the Griboyedov Canal, close to Nevsky Prospekt. Many governments currently advise against travel to Russia because of the war in Ukraine; check your government's travel advice first.
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