Saint Nicholas Russian Church
Russian Revival church with seven onion domes and a gilded iconostasis, now a students' chapel.
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This guide to the Saint Nicholas Russian Church in Bucharest starts at its gilded altar screen and opens a case file from the last years of imperial Russia. You'll meet the ambassador who began the church, the Tsar's court that paid for it, and the autumn of nineteen sixteen, when war reached the city and the doors were shut. It also follows the building's tug-of-war between Moscow and Bucharest. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the iconostasis.
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