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This beautiful Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, based oon the Northern Bank of the Moskva River, is a very famous Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the middle of Moscow. It is named as one of the most grand and still controversial buildings in Russia, the Cathedral has had a short but none the less turbulent history. Originally it was commissioned after the defeat of Napolean ( it seems all the Cathedrals were commissioned after winning yet another battle ). It was designed by the master Architect from St. Petersburg Konstantin Ton, who was also responsible for the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Kremlin Armoury, where the style preempted the Byzantine-revival style. It was erected on the embankment just a short walk from the Kremlin, to maximise the effect, which unfortunately meant the destruction of the medieval Alekseevskiy Convent.

This enormous and very expensive Cathedral, was, with its dominating copper domes, dominating the skyline of Moscow. A lot of plans for the Cathedral were in place in between wars and it became a swimming pool with a temperature of 27degrees all year round which led to many sad events.