Wasting Public Money: 3 Times!

At rhe end of the Boulevard Ring stands this magnificent church, called Church of Christ the Savior. Its story is really interesting, read below.

After Russia defeated Napoleon, the tsar ordered the first Church of Christ the Savior to be built. The funds for the church could have been used to feed the poor, but what can we do...

In the 1930's, Stalin became Party Leader, he began destroying a whole bunch of churches in Moscow, this church being one of them. He wanted to build the grandest Soviet buildings of all: the Palace of the Soviets. It would be huge, and an enormous statue of Lenin would be on top. After demolishing the church though, the engineers realized that the soil was too soft for such a building, so Stalin built the largest swimming pool in the planet. Again, funds that could have been used to feed the poor, but what can we do.

After the fall of Communism, someone had the magnificent idea of re-building the church. Zurab Tserteli (Muscovites most hated artist) designed the church in 1994, and the city Moscow paid the bill: $350 millions. Two hundred years later: funds that could have been used to feed the poor, but what can we do.