During the Siege of Leningrad, St. Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor), was the tallest building and very visible from all sides of Leningrad, and remained intact and untouched. In the beginning of the war, the threat to Leningrad and its suburbs became apparent. The conversation of how to evacuate the art treasures of the palaces began to Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Pushkin, and other inland locations.
