‘Everything in the rotunda was smashed into oblivion’
In the 1930s, the Soviet authorities blew up Odesa’s Transfiguration Cathedral. Now Russia has destroyed it again. De Agostini / BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA / Getty ImagesSoldiers outside of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa on July 16, 1905. Just weeks earlier, from June 14 to 25, the crew of the Black Sea battleship Potemkin launched a mutiny. After taking control of the ship, the crew stopped at the Port of Odesa to stock up on coal, water, and food.