Church of the Spilled Blood

I caught a cold a couple of days ago so I took the last 2 days there nice and slow. 

The Church of the Spilled Blood was built in memory of czar Alexander II and was built on the spot of his assassination. They have preserved and enclosed in the church the street for the actual spot he fell. Alexander II is best known for freeing the serfs. 

The church was designed to resemble St. Basil's in Moscow. The interior art is entirely mosaics. After the Russian revolution the church was used for storage and as a morgue in WWII.