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Smolny Convent
convent, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Also known as: Smolny Monastery
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architecture of Saint Petersburg
- In St. Petersburg: The rise to splendour
…belong the Winter Palace, the Smolny Convent, and the Vorontsov and Stroganov palaces, among others; outside the city were built the summer palaces of Peterhof and of Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin). After a transitional period dominated by the architecture of Jean-Baptiste M. Vallin de la Mothe and Aleksandr Kokorinov, toward…
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work of Rastrelli
- In Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli
…nun, Rastrelli began building the Smolny Monastery on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. A large two-story square of monastic cells surrounds a massive inner courtyard, in the centre of which stands a grand five-domed cathedral. The structure’s abundant ornamentation makes it appear to have been chiseled out of a single…
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