The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul is located in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. Swiss-Italian engineer Domenico Trezzini was charged with implementing the tsar’s vision for a ...

in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The last Russian tsar Nicholas II wasn`t an exception. His father, Alexander III, died in 1894 but Nicholas was crowned two years later ...

On 25 December Emperor Alexander I signed a manifest, declaring his purpose to build a cathedral in honor of Christ the Savior for saving Russia. It took a very long time to begin the actual work.

Heritage Images//Getty Images The four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra ... Chapel at St Petersburg's St Peter and Paul Cathedral, which has served as a resting place for ...

He died aged 53, in 1584, during a game of chess, and was interred at the Cathedral of the Archangel in the Russian capital. Having murdered his heir, Ivan Ivanonich, the tsar was succeeded his ...