Church Russicum

It is a sort of chapel, it is of orthodox rite, it was built in 1936 and is annexed to the hotel restaurant Villa Paris. Until the 40s it was the only place of worship of Orthodox and Byzantine style throughout the Abruzzo region together with that of Villa Badessa in the province of Pescara.

The painter and the Russian decorator Gregorio Maltzeff (1881-1953), a student of the St. Petersburg Art Academy, lived in Rome for forty years, that is, from 1913 to 1953, the year of his death.