Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg was designed by Andrey Voronikhin, with construction supervised by Alexander Stroganov. The article names no client. Construction began in 1801 and lasted ten years, and the infobox gives completion in 1811. After Napoleon's 1812 invasion it became a memorial to victory, and Kutuzov was interred there in 1813.
The article calls the style Empire. The infobox gives a length of 271 feet (82.5 m), a width of 282 feet (86 m) and a maximum height of 235 feet (71.6 m), while the text gives an interior length of 226 feet (69 m) and a height of 203 feet (62 m). It gives no materials.
The Soviets closed it in January 1932, and it reopened that November as an antireligious museum. Services resumed in 1992, and the cathedral returned to the Russian Orthodox Church four years later. It is the mother cathedral of the St. Petersburg metropolis. The article gives no hours.
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