Kazan Cathedral was built to store the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan on the eve of the Patriotic War of 1812. After the war, Mikhail Kutuzov was buried in it. In the park in front of the cathedral there are monuments of warlords of the war of 1812 - Mikhail Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly. On the opposite side of Nevsky Prospekt, the famous Singer House, the one whose sewing machines have conquered the whole world, is towering. Translated with Google Translate