Raznochinniy Petersburg (The St. Petersburg of
Raznochintsy) [11]
The State Historical and Memorial Museum of
Smolny - in the building occupied since the 1920s by the city government; previously of the former
Smolny Institute next to
Smolny Convent.[12][13] In early 21st century it shows 1) the history of the pre-1917 institute (the first state educational facility for young ladies), 2) the history of 1917 October Revolution and the time the building was occupied until the spring of 1918 by the first Soviet Government led by Vladimir Lenin which later moved to Moscow, including Lenin's apartment/study, 3) later Soviet period. The museum has branches, partly left after the closing in early 1990s of the city's branched subsidiary of National Lenin Museum:
the Yelizarov family memorial apartment near ulitsa Lenina (Lenin Street) in Petrogradsky district (one of Lenin's sisters Anna née Uliyanova was married to Mark Yelizarov, and Lenin was their guest);
the
Alliluyev family memorial apartment in 10th Sovietskaya ulitsa. (The family of
Nadezhda Alliluyeva and her parents was frequented by
Joseph Stalin after his Siberian exile).
First World War I museum - in Tsarskoe Selo; located in the recently restored Martial Chamber; features vehicles, military paraphernalia, documents, and even gas masks used for animals[40]
Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg - now not a museum as such, but itself a monument to the victory in 1812 Napoleonic War, containing remains of the victorious Field Marshal
Mikhail Kutuzov
Saint Sampson the Hospitable's Cathedral - a 1730s monument to Russia's victory in the decisive
Battle of Poltava in the
Great Northern War over the
Swedish Empire;the church grounds became the city's first interdenominational cemetery where many of St Petersburg's famous international architects were laid to rest, as well as the executed conspirators of the Volynski Plot