The Smolny building is linked with the 
revolutionary events. In August 1917 the 
All-Union Central Executive Committee and the 
Petrograd Soviet moved here from the Taurida 
Palace. It was here that the Military 
Revolutionary Committee was residing that wasin 
the head of the revolutionary uprising. In  Smolny 
the first Soviet government had been  sitting 
before it moved to Moscow in 1918.