Photo: Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Cathedral · Saint Petersburg, Russia
Kazan CathedralSuspected
- Dated
- Dated 1801–11
- Declared purpose
- Cathedral
- Today
- Survives, cathedral
- Build time
- About 10 years
- Region
- Russia
- Architect of record
- Andrey Voronikhin, architect: about 42 when credited (1801, born 1759). Build time on record: about 10 years.All architects of record →
- On the list as
- Suspected
Why it's on the list
Its curved colonnade copies St. Peter's in Rome, by an architect who had been a serf.
Hidden history
Found, Not Built
A cathedral with a curving colonnade modelled on St. Peter's, by Andrey Voronikhin, a former serf.
Why researchers flag it
Its curved colonnade copies St. Peter's in Rome, by an architect who had been a serf.
A former serf
Voronikhin was born a serf.
St. Peter's copied
Its colonnade echoes Bernini's.
Questions worth asking
- How did a former serf get the commission?
Possible original uses
- Cathedral
What the photos show
Gezicht op de Kazankathedraal in Sint-Petersburg Cathedrale von Kasan, 1. (titel op object), RP-F-F07472ca. 1850 - ca. 1880 · CC0
Gezicht op de Kazankathedraal in Sint-Petersburg met een monument voor veldmaarschalk Michail Koetoezov ervoor, RP-F-F07408ca. 1860 - ca. 1880 · CC0
0014Hg. St. Petersburg. Kazan Cathedral2026-01-18 12:48:54 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sources
Further viewing
Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.
