English: Smolny Convent on the bank of the River Neva in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1923.
Since the 1980s, the Cathedral is used primarily as a concert hall and the surrounding convent buildings house various offices and government institutions as well as some faculties of the Saint Petersburg State University.
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