Like it's Lutheran cousin, Võru's main Orthodox church is dedicated to St Catherine as a nod to the town's founder Catherine the Great. Completed in 1804, its elegant neoclassical design is topped with distinctly Russian-looking curved steeples. Inside there's a beautiful iconostasis and the remains of Nikolai Bežanitski, a priest killed by the Bolsheviks, who is now honoured as a martyr by the Russian Orthodox church.
