St Isaac's Cathedral

Category

Library Item

Item no

26743

Title

St Isaac's Cathedral

Description

This image is taken from Ethel Moir Diary Vol. 2. Page headed Petrograd March 1917

Artist / maker

Moir, Ethel

Date

1916

Size

6.5 x 12.6 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

When WWI broke out in August 1914 it was decided to change the name of the Russian capital from the Germanic St. Petersburg to the more Russian equivalent, Petrograd. It again changed from 1924 - 1991 to Leningrad, and from 1991 to present back to St Petersburg.

Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral in the city. It is the largest orthodox basilica and the fourth largest cathedral in the world. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint.

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