Kazan Cathedral

Kazan Cathedral is known as one most striking buildings in St. Petersburg located on the Nevsky Prospect, the main street of St. Petersburg. A Russian Tsar - Paul the first, impressed by St. Peter's in Rome, gave orders shortly before his death for the building of a similar church in his capital, and the architect Andrey Voronikhin built between 801-1811 a very individual church in the neo-classical style which resembles its Roman model only in the dome and colonnade.