Description of collection

The museum's collection contains relics from the first years of the Soviet period: documents, photos, personal items belonging to Lenin and Krupskaya, the Alliluevs and the Elizarovs, Bonch-Bruevitch, Knipovitch, Burenin, and etc., and paintings by the great painters Brodsky, Rilov, Serebrjanny, Izmailovitch, Neprintzev, and etc.

The museum's funds contain over 31679 objects, which make up the following collections:

1. The documental fund collection -- 1413 objects.
2. The poster collection -- 2137 objects.
3. The photo collection -- 400 objects.
4. The newspaper collection -- 21500 objects.
5. The art collection -- 463 objects.
6. The sculpture collection -- 76 objects.
7. The china collection -- 186 objects
8. The applied arts collection -- 25 objects.
9. The collection of objects -- 467 objects.
10. The numismatics collection -- 5700 objects.
11. The furniture collection -- 274 objects.

Topics of excursions:

1. "Smolny as a Historical Architectural Monument of the 19-20th centuries. "
2. "Lenin -the Founder of Soviet Government"
3. "The Activity of the Soviet Government During the Smolny Period (from October 27, 1917 to March 10, 1918)"
4. "Education for Russian Women. Smolny Institute for Girls"
5. "Smolny During the Siege Period. "

Schedule of Exhibitions

January: Art exhibition from the series "Petersburg and Petersburgers". Portraits of outstanding people made by Petersburg artists. The exhibition will be arranged in conjunction with the Artists' Union and the St-Petersburg Painters' Union.

February: Exhibition from the series "Pages of History Soviet Art, 1920-1940s," from the Smolny Museum collection.

April-May: Exhibition "Poster Art: 1910-1950." From the Smolny Museum collection.

September: Exhibition from the series "The Lives of Russian Intellectuals: Maria Uljanova." (the Elizarovs' flat).

November: Exhibition from the series "The Lives of Russian Intellectuals: The Life of a family." (the Alliluevs' flat)

The Smolny Museum's Filials:

"THE ELIZAROVS FLAT MUSEUM "

A large apartment house on Shirokaya Sreet, built in the modern style in 1912-1913, after Erlih's project.

The museum was opened on November 6, 1927, as Lenin's flat. It is one of the oldest Lenin museums in the country. In 1990, it was renamed as the Elizarovs house museum.

Mark Elizarov, his wife Anna Ulianova-Elizarova, their adopted son Lozgachev-Elizarov, Anna's mother and sister Maria lived in this flat from September, 1915-September, 1917.

Elizarov (1863--1919) from 1916-1917 was Director and Chief Manager of the 1st streamship society on the Volga. In Soviet Russia he was the Head of Railway Ministry; from the spring of 1918, he was the Head of Insurance and Fire Office; in January, 1919 he also became a Trade and Industry Office member.

Lenin and Krupskaya lived in this flat from April 4 (17) until July 5 (18), 1917 after they returned to Russia.

Lenin (Ulianov) (1870--1924) was one of the main leaders of the Social Democratic movement and the founder of the Bolshevik Party. In October 1917, he became the leader of the Soviet Union.

While living at the Elizarovs, he worked as a Petrosovet member, Bolshevik Central Committee member and as Editor of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda.

Krupskaya (Ulianova) (1869--1939) was Lenin's wife and co-worker. She wrote articles for the newspapers "Iskra", "Vpered", magazines "Rabotnitsa", "Prosveszhenije". After October, 1917 she was a head of the Education Office.

While living in Elizarovs' flat she was a member of local Duma. This museum is one of few in St. Petersburg which preserves the interior of a Russian intellectuals' home at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Anna and Maria Ulianova and Krupskaya assisted with the arranging of the museum.

Excursions:

-- general: "The Elizarovs-Ulianovs on Shirokaya Street (1915-1917)".

-- "The Elizarovs. Everyday life of Russian Intellectuals at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries".

-- "Revolution Events in Petrograd. Lenin's Activity. (February - July of 1917)".

Everybody who is interested can visit the exhibition "Mark Elizarov. The life of a Russian intellectual".

"THE ALLILUEVS HOUSE-MUSEUM"

The apartment house on Rozhdesvenskaya Street, 10 (now it is at 10th Soviet Street) was built in 1911, after architect Lalevitch's project, in the modern style.

Apartment 20 was rented by the Alliluevs family. The head of the family, Serge Alliluev, was a qualified worker who worked in the St. Petersburg power net for many years. His wife Olga was a nurse at a military hospital.

The Alliluevs participated in the events of the Revolution during the summer of 1917 in Petrograd.

In July, 1917 Lenin and Zinovyev were hiding from the Temporal Government in the Aliluevs' flat. Stalin, who later married the Aliluevs' youngest daughter lived there in Audust, 1917.

Krupskaya, Ulianova, Ordzhonikidze, Nogin, Stasova visited this flat.

In March,1938 the museum was opened. The memorial furnishings were reconstructed with the help of Aliluev and his daughter Anna. Most things in the flat are original.

The dining-room, where after July, 17 Lenin and then Stalin lived, maintains its original appearance.

Alliluev's daughters: (Anna and Nadezhda) room is also reconstructed. The furniture, documents, and photos presented in this room describe the history of Russian education.

The museum also contains the exhibition "Lenin. From a real person to the icon", that reveals unknown facts from Lenin's biography.

The following excursions are held in the museum:

"The Alliluevs family. Everyday life of a St-Petersburg qualified worker at the beginning of the 20th c.".

"Lenin in Petrograd. July, 1917."

"Lenin. From a real person to the icon".

"Petrograd in 1917, as seen through the eyes of a 16 year-old school girl".