The Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg

It is located in the very centre of the city, easily accessible from the Nevsky Prospect metro station.It took its name after the murder of tsar Alexander II, who was killed in 1881 in the place where the church stands today.The Griboyedov Canal, which leads to the church, used to be named the Catherine Canal (after Catherine the Great), but as it often happened, the name was changed under the communist rule.