floral designs, use of multicolored tiles and massive forging, are manifest both in the external and in the internal decoration of these structures. A typical example is the Historical Museum (1875–81, architect Vladimir Sherwood) which completed the ensemble of Red Square. 1898–1917 At the turn of the centuries, the Russian Orthodox Church experienced a new trend; construction of unusually large cathedrals in working-class suburbs of big cities. Some, like Dorogomilovo Ascension Cathedral (1898–1910), rated for 10,000 worshippers, were launched in quiet country outskirts that increased in population by the time of completion. Christian theorists explain the choice of such remote locations with the desire to extend the reach of Church to working class, and only working class, in the time when wealthier classes stepped away from it. Byzantine architecture was a natural choice for these projects. It was a clear statement of national roots, against the modern European heresies. It was also much cheaper than grand Neoclassical cathedrals, both in initial costs and subsequent maintenance. The largest examples of this type were all completed after the Russian revolution of 1905: Dorogomilovo Cathedral, Moscow, 1898–1910 Our Lady of Iveron Cathedral in Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery Cathedral, Pererva (now Moscow) 1904–1908 Kronstadt Naval Cathedral, 1908–1913 1905–1917 Rogozhskoye Cemetery belltower by Fyodor Gornostaev, 1908–1913 Balakovo church by Fyodor Schechtel, 1909–1912 Emperor railway station in Pushkin town, 1912 St.Nicholas church by Belorusskaya Zastava in Moscow, 1914–1921 Gallery See also Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire Russian neoclassical revival National Romantic style Postconstructivism Footnotes