Sobor Petra I Pavla

St Petersburg's first church, laid down in 1712 to Domenico Trezzini's design, and the burial place of Russian emperors from Peter I to Nicholas II. Its 122-metre bell tower with a gilded angel was long the city's tallest structure. Every Romanov monarch was interred here; in 1998 the remains of Nicholas II and his family were reburied in the St Catherine chapel. Inside, a carved gilded baroque iconostasis dominates.