• Aerial view of Smolny Convent. Smolny Convent or Smolny Convent of the Resurrection (Voskresensky, Russian: Воскресенский новодевичий Смольный...
  • It was renamed as Smolny Convent. It was consecrated as a cathedral of all educational institutions in the name of the Resurrection of Christ in 1748.
  • The Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrection is an active Orthodox church and an architectural monument of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Smolny Convent is located on Ploschad Rastrelli very close to the famous river Neva.
  • …belong the Winter Palace, the Smolny Convent, and the Vorontsov and Stroganov palaces, among others...
  • In 1764 she founded what was called the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens designed to “give the state educated women, good mothers, useful members of the...
  • In the 1740s Empress Elizabeth ordered the construction of a convent on the site of the Smolny House where she spent her younger years.
  • The dazzling cupolas of Smolny Cathedral, one of the most beautiful churches in St. Petersburg, rise majestically from its waterside location on the banks of...
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  • Smolny Convent or Smolny Convent of the Resurrection (Voskresensky), located on Ploschad Rastrelli, on the bank of the River Neva in Saint Petersburg...
  • Unveiled in 1748, the construction of the convent was ordered by Elizabeth Petrovna (future Empress Elizabeth I), daughter of Peter the Great.