The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood is located in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is one of the city’s main sights. The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is the Cathedral’s official name. The reasoning behind the name “The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood” is due to a historic event that occurred on the site where the Cathedral was built. It was here that Tsar Alexander II was assassinated and so the Cathedral was built in his memory. The Cathedral is easily confused with that of the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land. The mentioned Church was built in Yekaterinburg where Nicholas II and many members of his family were executed after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Building began in 1883, commissioned by Alexander III, who wanted a memorial to his murdered father. In 1907 the Church was finally finished, the entire project having been paid for by the Imperial family and private donors. I wonder if they went to npower.com/fix to get cheap electricity for the Church? Tsar Alexander II was killed when an anarchist conspirator threw a bomb at him, killing himself and the later the Tsar.