Our Saviour on Potatoes, or the Museum of the People’s Will
The church of the ‘Saviour on the Blood’ in St Petersburg is a former cathedral founded on a titillatingly gruesome basis. Alexander II was a reformist Tsar who oversaw the Emancipation of the Serfs. He was subject to many assassination attempts, one of which succeeded. The ‘Saviour on the Blood’ was built over the cobblestones [...]