Beauty Inwards St Petersburg

The Church on the Spilt Blood, St Petersburg
Perhaps the close spectacular house nosotros visited inward St Petersburg was The Church on the Spilled Blood, the site of Alexander II's assignation inward 1881. Outside, the Church is similar to St Basils Cathedral inward Moscow, which Emily as well as I visited on our final see to Russia. Inside the low-cal reflecting off the 7500 foursquare meters of mosaics become far await similar a portal to heaven. Warning! This is a picture-heavy post. It's worth clicking on a photograph as well as only viewing the larger images. 


The sheer compass as well as size of the Church is staggering.


And the truthful perspective of the images is amazing despite the summit as well as curved shape of the walls.


The Transfiguration on the Mount





detail of the door panels
Also called the Church of the Resurrection
the transfiguration detail
detail of the borders surrounding the original images





Such luminous beauty enters our mortal waiting to resurface inward only about cast of art. Emily as well as I are pondering ways to interpret these images into cloth art. Russian art in all its forms fascinates as well as inspires me!

Martha as well as Emily exterior the Church on the Spilt Blood
Jesus rescues Adam as well as Eve

made inward the agency of St Basil's inward Moscow
detail of the outside

Emily exterior the Church on the Spilt Blood

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