Inside The Church Of Our Savior On Spilled Blood (Russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
This 12-minute video tours almost the entire cathedral.
The battery in a my camera died just as I was approaching the exit of the church. This clip was shot with a small Samsung point-and-shoot, so please excuse any unsteadiness.. and please do enjoy.
**more Info: The Church Of Our Savior on Spilled Blood contains over 7500 square meters of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world. The interior was designed by some of the most celebrated Russian artists of the day—including Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel — but the church's chief architect, Alfred Alexandrovich Parland, was relatively little-known (born in St. Petersburg in 1842 in a Baltic-German Lutheran family). Perhaps not surprisingly, the Church's construction ran well over budget, having been estimated at 3.6 million rubles but ending up costing over 4.6 million. The walls and ceilings inside the Church are completely covered in intricately detailed mosaics — the main pictures being biblical scenes or figures — but with very fine patterned borders setting off each picture. It is absolutely stunning to behold in person.
