St. Isaac`s Cathedral the official name is the Cathedral of St. Isaac the Dalmatian is the largest Orthodox church in St. Petersburg. It is located on Isaakievskaya square. The cathedral of the St. Petersburg diocese from 1858 to 1928. Since 1928 has the status of a museum museum complex `State Museum-monument` Isaakievsky Cathedral `. The modern building of the cathedral is the fourth St. Petersburg church in honor of Isaac of Dalmatia, erected on the site of the cathedral designed by Antonio Rinaldi. The architect of the fourth cathedral, which was intended to become the main Orthodox shrine of the empire, was the architect Auguste Montferrand. The building was supervised by Nicholas I himself, the chairman of the Commission on the construction of the cathedral was Karl Opperman. When building the building, new construction technologies were used, which influenced the further development of the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. The construction of the building and work on its design continued from 1818 to 1858. St. Isaac`s Cathedral is considered the latest building in the style of classicism.

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