Private Tour: The Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood

During this wonderful tour you visit the Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood is an architectural landmark of central St Petersburg, and a unique monument to Alexander II the Liberator. This Church was built on the exact spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated and was dedicated in his memory. It features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, Italian coloured marbles, decorative stones from the Urals and Altai region, as well as a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics. Looking at both the interior and exterior, it's easy to see why the church cost about 4.6 million rubles, way over the budgeted 3.6 million. The outside was designed to mirror the magnificent St. Basil's in Moscow, the city's easily-recognizable centerpiece, and the building - both inside and outside - features of mosaics, most of them designed by the prominent artists of the time, including Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel. The majority of the mosaics depict biblical scenes and saints though some are just patterns. The colorful onion domes, of which the central one reaches a height of 81 meter (266 ft), are covered with bright enamels. The cathedral boasts a luxurious and rich decor, ornamental architraves, frames, corbels, ceramic tiles, and colored glazed tiles. The belfry is decorated with mosaic coats-of-arms of cities and regions of the Russian empire.