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Smolny Institute. Headquarters of the Soviets and for several months seat of the Bolshevik Government. Once an aristocratic boarding-school for young ladies of noble family, "The great barracks-like façade…two hundred yards long and three lofty stories high, the Imperial arms carved hugely in stone, still insolent over the entrance…"
