Église Russe
Gold-domed Russian Revival cathedral of striped Byzantine arches, raised over a vanished medieval priory.
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This guide to the Eglise Russe in Geneva starts beneath its ground, with a Benedictine priory that stood on the same spot in the fifteen hundreds, long before any Russian involvement. It follows the eighteen sixties project that replaced that memory: a design sent from Saint Petersburg by the architect David Grimm, built by a Geneva contractor named Jean-Pierre Guillebaud, and bankrolled by Grand Duchess Anna Fyodorovna after she settled in Switzerland apart from her husband. Look up at the striped Byzantine arches banding the walls while you listen, three years of continuous work went into them alone.
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