Chapelle Alexandra
Chapelle Alexandra stands in Square Alexandra, Cannes, as a masonry chapel crowned by a dome. Its restored façade and commemorative plaques preserve a private memorial built for Alexandra Feodorovna Skrypitzine.
French consul in Moscow Eugène Tripet commissioned the chapel after Alexandra’s death, and construction finished in 1895. The couple had settled in Cannes after a carriage accident in October 1848, then built a villa in La Californie in 1850. Their home welcomed Russian aristocrats, artists and members of the imperial family, while the family donated about 1,600 square metres for Notre-Dame des Pins and land for a Russian church.
The chapel connects personal grief with Cannes’s Russian heritage and its cosmopolitan history. From this public square, you can see the restored structure and plaques honouring the woman it commemorates.
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