St Petersburg's stunning Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood is perhaps the most ostentatious and colourful shrine ever built for the memory of one person. Construction of this Russian orthodox-style church was ordered by Tsar Alexander III of Russia, following the assassination of his father, Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Alexander II was assassinated by an …
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