Chesmensk Church
The Chesme Church ( Russian Чесменская церковь :, full name Church of St. John the Baptist on Tschesmensker Palais , Russian церковь Рождества Иоанна Предтечи при Чесменском Дворце is) a church building in St. Petersburg , Russia . It was built in honor of the Russian sailors. In the naval battle of Çeşme in 1770, the Russian fleet won the decisive victory in the 5th Russian Turkish War . The architect Georg Friedrich Veldten (Russian: Юрий Матвеевич Фельтен) created the idiosyncratic structure in 1780 in a neo-Gothic style with oriental motifs.
Next to the church is the Chesmensk military cemetery with the graves of the veterans of the campaigns Mikhail Kutuzov , Alexander Suvorov and others, as well as the defenders of Leningrad during the German-Soviet war and the Leningrad blockade .
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- ↑ Чесменское воинское кладбище ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 9, 2017).
Coordinates: 59 ° 51 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 30 ° 19 ′ 51.2 ″ E