Spilt Blood church private tour St. Petersburg

The Savior on the Spilt Blood Church + city tour by car or minivan (Duration 3 hours)

The church of Resurrection of Christ adorns the central part of the city. It was erected by the order of Alexander III at the place where his father Alexander II was mortally wounded on 1 March 1881 by Ignatiy Grinevitsky member of the "People’s willl" organization. Alexander II was named by the people “the Tsar-Liberator” for abolishing serfdom in Russia. That is why people call this church The Savior on the Spilt Blood Church.

Architect Alfred Parland decorated this temple with 7000 square metres of mosaics. The especially honored place on the Churh is the magnificent tent canopy, made of jasper, lapis-lazuli and rhodonite.

Tour of the Church of the Spilt Blood church includes a review of outside, inside and also a fascinating story about history of its construction.

During this tour you will get acquainted with all city's major highlights. You will see the Winter Palace, residence of the Russian tsars, created by the great Italian architect Rastrelly, Kazan cathedral, the Admiralty. The guide will take you down Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg's most famous thorougfare. You will see the main squares and architectural ensembles of the city, beautiful bridges and Neva river embankments. The guide will show you our legendary Cruiser Aurora, Log cabin of Peter the Great, University, Point of Vasilievsky island, Egyptian Sphinxes, Menshikov and Yusupov palaces, monuments to Peter the First and Catherine the Second.

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Price per 1 person US $	139	99	78	65	57	51

Included: guide service, car (minivan) with professional driver, museum tickets

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The Spilt Blood Church and St. Isaac's Cathedral walking tour (Duration 3 hours)

The guide can meet you at your hotel or near one of the churches. This tour includes a review of outside, inside and also a fascinating story about history of construction of both churches. This is the walking tour.

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Price per 1 person US $	110	85	70	60	55	50

Included: guide service, museum tickets

Not included: tickets to colonnade

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Holy gates

In1881 Ignaty Grinevitsky killed Emperor Alexander 2. After the sovereign's martyr's death his sun inherited the throne. The city funds were destined to build in honor of this sad event chapel or a Church. However, in April at the expense of merchants Gromov and Militsin a wooden chapel appeared. Memorial services were conducted there. Meanwhile, newspapers announced a competition.The memorial temple planned to be built. The project by academician Parland and Archimandrite of the Trinity-Sergiev desert Ignatius was approved. The Resurrection of Christ temple was called by inhabitants the Saviour-on-Blood.

The Cathedral was built from 1883 to1901. The architecture concrete foundation has been applied in constructing. An ingenious basements, waterproofing system, central heating, electric lighting using 1689 lamps, lightning protection and other structures allowed to consider it modern building indeed. From distance, the Cathedral attracts attention with its breathtaking decor - a variety of trims, which include mosaic inserts and icons, corbels, ceramic and colorful tiles gilded and enameled. Inside the temple the walls, pillars, vaults are covered with mosaics.

Personal Saint-Petersburg private guide will tell you that the galaxy of artists - Ryabushkin and Koshelev, Vasnetsov and Kharlamov, Nesterov, Parland himself and others worked on the sketches of icons for iconostasis, dome ceilings, wall bases of icon cases. The place where the tsar mortally wounded fall down is specially emphasis in the decoration. It was carefully maintained, then splendid canopy, decorated with stars of Siberian semiprecious stones and topazes was withdrawn over it.

The fancy semi-circular fence near the Saviour and the garden was performed by Parland. The consecration was on the Transfiguration day. On the ceremony the tsar was present, his August wife, the clergy and the court. Remarkably, out of 5000000 rubles spent for this testimony of the heartfelt love to the liberator of peasants, 580000 were donated by the townspeople. The government provided the maintenance of this sanctuary.

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