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Smolny Convent

 convent, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  • architecture of Saint Petersburg ( in Saint Petersburg (Russia): The rise to splendour )

    ...and Vasily P. Stasov, working in the Russian Baroque style, which combined clear-cut, even austere lines with richness of decoration and use of colour. To this period 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 (now Petrodvorets) and of ...

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