eglise russe

"The Grand Duchess Anna Fyodorovna, the sister-in-law of Tsar Alexander I and aunt of Queen Victoria, set up court here and funded the construction of a Russian Orthodox church in 1863 on the remains of a 16th- century Benedictine priory. The Russian Church was built in a Byzantine Moscovite style according to the design of Grimm, a professor at the St-Petersburg Academy, and was completed in 1866."

* The Russian Church. Geneva, Switzerland.