There is a place in St. Petersburg where all the buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries seem to be modern. The view of it opens unexpectedly in the very center of the city, when you walk around the Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo metro station. It seems as if we are in ancient Moscow, as we are faced with a rather extensive fragment of the Moscow Kremlin wall, red brick, turrets and arches. This wall is part of the Church of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.

This temple is not old at all, it is about a hundred years old. It was built for the 300th anniversary of the reign of the House of Romanov on the initiative of Alexander III. The idea of architect Sergei Krichinsky was to recreate a piece of Moscow in St. Petersburg, with a temple in the style of ancient Rostov cathedrals surrounded by a whole complex of buildings and monuments. The complex was supposed to symbolize unity after the troubled times of the Russian lands under the rule of the Romanov family.

The temple was consecrated on time, and of the rest of the buildings, only a wall resembling the Kremlin wall was erected; it still blocks the view of the household buildings of the Moscow Railway Station. But the history of the church turned out to be less prosperous. After the barbaric treatment of it in Soviet times, the building, which ceased to serve as a dairy factory and was once again handed over to the diocese, needs to be restored.