Site of Alexander II's assassination (Saint Petersburg)
Russia /
Sankt Petersburg /
Saint Petersburg /
naberezhnaya kanala Griboyedova, 2б litera А
World
/ Russia
/ Sankt Petersburg
/ Saint Petersburg
, 1 km from center (Санкт-Петербург)
World / Russia / Leningrad
chapel, assassination, place with historical importance, orthodox christianity
The church is built on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was killed by an anarchist's bomb in 1881. The blood-stained cobblestones are still exposed inside the church.
"I was deafened by the new explosion, burned, wounded and thrown to the ground. Suddenly, amid the smoke and snowy fog, I heard His Majesty's weak voice cry, 'Help!' Gathering what strength I had, I jumped up and rushed to the tsar. His Majesty was half-lying, half-sitting, leaning on his right arm. Thinking he was merely wounded heavily, I tried to lift him but the tsar's legs were shattered, and the blood poured out of them. Twenty people, with wounds of varying degree, lay on the sidewalk and on the street. Some managed to stand, others to crawl, still others tried to get out from beneath bodies that had fallen on them. Through the snow, debris, and blood you could see fragments of clothing, epaulets, sabers, and bloody chunks of human flesh."
"I was deafened by the new explosion, burned, wounded and thrown to the ground. Suddenly, amid the smoke and snowy fog, I heard His Majesty's weak voice cry, 'Help!' Gathering what strength I had, I jumped up and rushed to the tsar. His Majesty was half-lying, half-sitting, leaning on his right arm. Thinking he was merely wounded heavily, I tried to lift him but the tsar's legs were shattered, and the blood poured out of them. Twenty people, with wounds of varying degree, lay on the sidewalk and on the street. Some managed to stand, others to crawl, still others tried to get out from beneath bodies that had fallen on them. Through the snow, debris, and blood you could see fragments of clothing, epaulets, sabers, and bloody chunks of human flesh."
The place is located in Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°56'24"N 30°19'42"E
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