Around the Zemlyanoy Gorod

Aleksandr Nevsky’s Chapel

Aleksandr Nevsky’s Chapel (June 2009)

This pretty chapel was built in 1892 and in honour of the miraculous salvation of the tsar and his family when the imperial train crashed near Borki in 1888 . It consists of a small ‘octagon on a cube’ bell tower and a tent-dome covering the entrance, all built in the ancient-Russian style and decorated with elaborate cornices, kokoshniks, and ceramic tiles. Today the chapel serves as a podvorye (embassy church) for the Tolgsky Convent.

Location 8 Ulitsa Andropova