Cathedral of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood - it is one of the main attractions of St. Petersburg.It was built with a rather dramatic circumstances, and his story was no less tragic.With many famous buildings associated mysticism.For example, a mysterious way he was able to avoid destruction.Moreover, they say, there is an icon that can open up the future.
For many amazing location of the temple - it is literally hanging over the canal, breaking the embankment.How could this happen in a city that was built using the most rigorous architectural canons.
morning of March 1, 1881 the Russian Emperor Alexander II, who visited the usual divorce troops in Mikhailovsky Manege, and afterwards went home to the Winter Palace.His journey took place near the Catherine Canal (now Griboyedov Canal).Suddenly, his coach ran over a man and threw it in the bundle.
explosion, but no one was hurt.King was able to escape unharmed from the coach and go to the wounded young man who is already tied, lying on the snow.They found Narodovolets Trotters.But at this moment the Emperor ran Grinevitsky second killer, who threw the bomb.Terrorists err on the safe side.Again, there was an explosion, which proved to be more powerful than the previous one.Alexander, along with a killer was thrown to the grating channel.This proved to end.
In the past, Alexander II had predicted that it was the 8th attempt on his life would be fatal.Prior to that, on the life of the king attempted six times.He was able to survive the seventh, but the 8th became fatal.
death of the emperor was a shock for all of Russia.The next day the heir to the throne of Alexander III received an order to start the construction of a temple on the site of the death of his father.
Construction of the cathedral was delayed for 24 years.It was completed only in 1907.The fact is that more than 7,000 sq.m.of the temple were decorated with mosaic frescoes created by famous artists Vasnetsov and Nesterov.At the place where the emperor died, it was built a special chapel.It left no stone blocks on which the monarch had died.
Immediately after the consecration of the Church of the Savior on Blood began to appear mystical legends.Many said that sometimes you can hear the groans of the murdered emperor.And the common people believed that the new church can save you from trouble.There was even a kind of plot-prayer: Christ, Savior on the Blood!Save us, save!From the rain of the knife, from the wolf from the fool, on the night of trouble, from the curve of the road ...
Yet there were a belief that this council can not be destroyed.Soon it was confirmed.In 1941, the authorities decided to blow up the Church of the Savior on Blood, calling it "an object that does not have the artistic and architectural value.The walls had been drilled, there is already laid explosives.But the Great Patriotic War, so all the Blasters were urgently sent to the front.
The siege of the temple located morgue, where the bodies were frozen Leningrad who died from hunger or from bombardments.But the shells and bombs miraculously flew past the cathedral, as if he really was a charm.
In the era of Khrushchev's "Savior on the Blood" once wanted to destroy.This time, under the pretext of the start of construction of the transport line.Although in those days in Leningrad, was blown up about a hundred churches "enchanted" the temple remained intact.There were rumors that this has helped the victims of Leningrad blood soaked the walls of the building.And some believe that the church is protected from the destruction of the symbols of an equilateral cross in the circle that adorn kokoshniki windows.Ostensibly, it is a protective sign, which has come down to us from antiquity.
In 1970 began the restoration of Church of the Savior on Blood, were established forests.But the restoration was delayed for a long time, everyone got used to the sight of the temple, surrounded by forests.And in the mid-80s there was talk about the prophecy - allegedly, the Soviet power will last as long as there are forests around the Savior on the Spilled Blood.They took them just before the coup in August 1991.
There is a tradition that the church is an icon, which, if you look closely, appear the fateful date in the history of Russia: 1917, 1941, 1953, as well as some other, is unclear.It is possible that they relate to future events, but so far nobody has been able to decipher them.
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