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71: 20: 60: 70: 98:. The establishment of the institute was a significant step in making education available for females in Russia: "The provision of formal education for women began only in 1764 and 1765, when Catherine II established first the Smolny Institute for girls of the nobility in Saint Petersburg and then the 182:
Today, this historic building is the official residence of the governor of Saint Petersburg and also houses a museum dedicated to Lenin. Visitors to the museum can tour Lenin's office and living rooms and see the assembly hall where the victory of the October revolution was proclaimed in 1917.
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for the daughters of commoners." The Smolny was Russia's first educational establishment for women and continued to function under the personal patronage of the Russian Empress until just before the 1917 revolution. A
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that was built on the place where a resin plant had once been ("smola" is Russian for "resin").
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by the Society for Education of Noble Maidens and constructed in 1806–08 to house the
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and iron-work grille around the institute date from the early 19th century.
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in March 1918. After that, the Smolny became the headquarters of the local
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Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg
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Modern view of the facade, with a Lenin statue in the foreground
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worked there from 1991 to 1997 in the administration of
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After 1991, the Smolny was used as the seat of the city
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Smolny Institute got its name from being close to the
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Russian
Palladian
Saint Petersburg
history of Russia

Quarenghi

Giacomo Quarenghi
Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens
Ivan Betskoy
Catherine II (the Great)
Smolny Convent
Novodevichii Institute
parterre garden
Smolny Convent
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik
October Revolution
Moscow Kremlin
Communist Party
apparat
city hall
Vasily Kozlov
Vladimir Shchuko
Vladimir Gelfreikh
Sergei Kirov
mayor
city administration
Vladimir Putin

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