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Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

St. Petersburg, Russia

Commissioned by Alexander III to memorialize the death of his father, Alexander II, who was killed on this site in 1881 by a terrorist's bomb. The church opened in 1907 and was closed by Stalin in the 1930's and reopened at the end of the 20th century.

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Uploaded on October 26, 2008
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