David Grimm designed the church, which Tsar Alexander III and his brothers built to honor their mother, Empress Maria Alexandrovna. It was completed and consecrated in 1888. The article calls it Russian Revival and says it uses the tented roof style of 16th and 17th century Russia. It has seven gilded onion domes and gives no dimensions.
In 1982 the bodies of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and Varvara Yakovleva were moved from the crypt to the upper church. In 1988 the remains of Princess Alice of Battenberg were placed in a crypt below.
It is an active Eastern Orthodox church and part of the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, founded in 1936. It moved under the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church in 2007. The article gives no visiting hours.
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