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      🏛 Smolny Institute

      Смольный пр., 1

      Quarenghi's Neoclassicism: the former institute for noble maidens, the headquarters of the 1917 revolution, now the governor's administration; from the square you can see the propylaea and the garden with the Lenin monument, and the museum is by prior reservation.

      Smolny Institute
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      • The Smolny Institute is Russia's first educational institution for women, conceived on the model of the Saint-Cyr institute near Paris.
      • Girls were admitted from the age of six for 12 years, and parents signed a pledge not to take their daughter home before the term was up.
      • The pupils' uniform changed colour with age: coffee-brown, dark blue, light blue, and white for the oldest.
      • Quarenghi built the building with its eight-column portico in 1806–1808.
      • On 1 December 1934 Sergei Kirov, head of the Leningrad Communists, was assassinated at Smolny.
      • Since 1996 Smolny has been the official residence of the governor of Petersburg.

      Part of these routes

      • Tauride Garden and Smolny: the long loop
      • Smolny and Tauride Garden at night
      • Smolny in lights and Malaya Okhta
      • Tauride Palace, Kikin Chambers and Smolny

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