Chesme Church in St. Petersburg | Travel + Leisure
12 Lensoveta Street
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From Travel + Leisure, Dec 2005

“My favorite building in Petersburg is just a few blocks from here. The raspberry and white candy box of the Chesme Church is an outrageous example of the neo-Gothic in Russia, made all the more precious by its location between the worst hotel in the world and a particularly gray Soviet block. The eye reels at the church's dazzling conceit, its mad collection of seemingly sugarcoated spires and crenellations, its utter edibility....” MORE>>

–Gary Shteyngart, “A St. Petersburg Christmas”

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