7 of the most BEAUTIFUL churches in St. Petersburg (PHOTOS)

The largest church in St. Petersburg and one of the largest Orthodox churches in the country. Before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, it was a cathedral and a real spiritual center of the country. The construction, designed by architect Auguste de Montferrand, lasted for 40 years and the result was a church of incredible beauty in the style of classicism.

The colonnade of this early 19th-century cath