after the russian revolution, the place was closed due to religious persecution in russia. after the death of lenin and succession by stalin, he saw the churches in moscow as an unnecessary space and would decide to demolish them. in the place of the cathedral, the construction of a palace for the supreme soviet of the ussr, and in 1930 this idea would start, this work would be in charge of mikhail kalinin and before demolishing the cathedral, around 25 tons of gold would be removed, stalin saw the cathedral as an unnecessary luxury for the soviet state and the demolition would begin on july 23, 1931 to try to erase russia's imperial past, which this cathedral represented.