The Church of resurrection was put up on the spot where Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia, was mortally wounded on 1 March 1881. The church owes its second, widely spread name, of the Saviour on the Spilled Blood, to this tragic event.

The cathedral was designed in Old Russian style and modeled on Moscow and Yaroslavl seventeenth-century churches. The mosaics, which cover a vast area of the outer and inner walls (approximately 7000 square meters in total) make the church monument of the international significance.

In the interior decoration of the church are amply used natural semi-precious stones from Russia and Italy. The floor is laid out with various kinds of Italian marble looks like a mosaic carpet.