The Chesme Church is a small Russian Orthodox church in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Built by the Russian court architect Yury Felten in 1780, at the direction of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, it was erected to commemorate the anniversary of Russia’s 1770 victory over Turkish forces at the Battle of Chesma, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 to 1774. The church and the adjoining Chesme Palace were the earliest Neo-Gothic constructions in the St Petersburg area. Considered by some to be Saint Petersburg’s single most impressive church, it is a rare example of very early Gothic Revival influence in Russian church architecture. This photograph shows the facade of the Chesme Church in 2012.
Author: Alexander Savin
There is nothing about this topic in Turkish history books.The war reparations the Ottoman Empire paid to Russia were used to build a massive palace complex.I saw and learned these things while living in Russia and learning Russian in 2014-2015.History books contain almost nothing about the naval battles, land battles, and ongoing wars with the Russians since 1700. However, Turkish history books only mention 3 of these agreements - Treaty of Karlowitz , Treaty of Pasarofca, Treaty of San Stefano. Even about the 1877 Ottoman-Russian War, very little information is provided.
Almost nothing has been written in history books about Ottoman-Russian relations from 1750 to 1910.But in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, I saw a different history.