Two angels and a mosaic icon of Jesus Christ over the main entrance to the Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.


Two angels and a mosaic icon of Jesus Christ over the main entrance to the Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. The Russian Memorial Church dedicated to Saint Alexius of Moscow was designed by Russian architect Vladimir Pokrovsky and built in 1913 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1813 Battle of the Nations.


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