Smolny

Antonoff, the War Minister, had an office in Smolny, as well as Krylenko and Dubenko, so it was the nerve centre for the army and navy, as well as the political centre.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

Often in Smolny excited Russians would say to us accusingly: "So this is how the American papers lie about the revolutionists!"

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

Smolny is an enormous place; the great main building stretches in a straight line for hundreds of feet with an ell jutting out at each end and forming a sort of elongated court.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

So many different organisations had offices in Smolny.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

Running a government was a new task and often puzzling to the people in Smolny.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

Mlechin Kreml, 631 mentions another KGB agent in the Smolny, but I have not found independent confirmation of his KGB affiliation.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

After Sobchak was elected mayor and moved the government into the elegant Smolny Institute, a former academy for noble women that the Communists had used as their city headquarters, Putin would not at first even take an office on the same floor as his boss.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The next summer, Sobchak ran for mayor of the northern capital and won, and soon afterwards the team moved into the Smolny Institute, the orange and white former academy where the daughters of the St. Petersburg nobility had once been educated, evicting the Communist Party leaders who had occupied it since the Revolution.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The next summer, Sobchak ran for mayor of the northern capital and won, and soon afterwards the team moved into the Smolny Institute, the orange and white former academy where the daughters of the St. Petersburg nobility had once been educated, evicting the Communist Party leaders who had occupied it since the Revolution.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

After Sobchak was elected mayor and moved the government into the elegant Smolny Institute, a former academy for noble women that the Communists had used as their city headquarters, Putin would not at first even take an office on the same floor as his boss.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011