Smolny Institute information

The Smolny Institute (Russian: Смольный институт) is a Palladian edifice in Saint Petersburg that has played a major part in the history of Russia. The...

and 19th centuries. As the most widely known of the buildings, the Smolny Institute, has been used as the seat of the City Governor's Office; its name...

The Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Смольный институт благородных девиц Санкт-Петербурга) was the first women's educational...

Kirov was shot and killed by Leonid Nikolaev at his offices in the Smolny Institute. Nikolaev and several alleged accomplices were convicted in a show...

Smolny Convent or Smolny Convent of the Resurrection (Voskresensky, Russian: Воскресенский новодевичий Смольный монастырь), located on Ploschad Rastrelli...

German, Polish, and Greek background, von Root was educated at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in the Russian Empire. As a teenager, she ran away...

"Closed female institutes of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria". The first and most famous of these was the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens...

the City of Saint Petersburg. The governor's office is located in Smolny Institute and appoints many officials, including deputy governors and directors...

age of the Russian Enlightenment, including the establishment of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens, the first state-financed higher education institution...

Catherine II established first the Smolny Institute for girls of the nobility in St. Petersburg and then the Novodevichii Institute for the daughters of commoners...

the NKVD, allegedly for loitering around the Smolny Institute, where Kirov had his offices. The Smolny guards had discovered a loaded 7.62 mm Nagant...

began plans to organise the offensive, holding a final meeting at the Smolny Institute on 24 October. This was the base of the Military Revolutionary Committee...

nobility as a member of the Teglev family. She was educated at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in Saint Petersburg. Tegleva served in the Russian...

penniless father, Catherine and her sister Maria were sent to the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in St. Petersburg, a school for well-born girls. Her...

The following is a list of those who have been principals of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens. Rzhevskaya, G.I. (1871). "Memoirs of Glafira Ivanovna...

October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup — the October Revolution — was directed...

of Mars, St. Michael's Castle, Summer Garden, Tauride Palace, Smolny Institute and Smolny Convent are located. Many notable landmarks are to the west and...

hope of turning them into "little ladies." After being refused at the Smolny Institute, they attended Steblin-Kamensky private preparatory school in October...

the head of the secret police, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, in the Smolny Institute, the seat of the revolutionary communist government in Petrograd, or...

founded in 1834. The institute opened its doors in 1834. It was the Ukrainian equivalent to the Smolny Institute in Russia. The institute educated daughters...

Catherine II established first the Smolny Institute for girls of the nobility in St. Petersburg and then the Novodevichii Institute for the daughters of commoners...

Winter Palace, and moved the Soviet from the Tauride Palace to the Smolny Institute. Bolshevik power was dispersed for the time being. The suppression...

Russian fitfulness of mood". In 1916, Kashperova became a teacher at the Smolny Institute, there she met Sergei Andropov, who was her student and a Bolshevik...

In November 1917 Lenin and his wife took a two-room flat within the Smolny Institute, with Trotsky and his family living in the flat opposite; being based...

The Petrograd Soviet was forced to move from Tauride Palace into the Smolny Institute. Trotsky was captured a few days later and imprisoned, whilst Lenin...

artists and cultural workers to assemble at an evening meeting in the Smolny Institute, where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, to show support for the...

1760-1839), was a Swedish pedagogue. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1802–1839. She was the daughter of the Batlic...

Montenegro. Vjera and her sister Princess Xenia were not educated at the Smolny Institute in Russia like her eldest sisters had been, but educated at home. She...