Ms. Gheorghe Gudrun, whose grandmother became a friend of Irma Inzelberg after her emigration to Germany, came to give a relic that has been kept in her family for several generations to the museum.
“She remembered this time with great pleasure and spoke of him with reverence. During the tour, we heard what strict orders were in the lives of students of the Smolny Institute. And I must say that in Germany she continued to adhere to these orders and lived to a very advanced age”, Ms. George Gudrun shared her memories of Irma Inzelberg.
The Consul General of Germany in St. Petersburg Eltier Aderhold, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg Arbi Abubakarov, Chairman of the Committee for Culture Konstantin Sukhenko, Director of the Smolny Historical and Memorial Museum Nikolai Tretyakov also took part in the ceremony of transferring of the new exhibit to the museum.
After the official part on the third floor of Smolny, an art exhibition "Art in Smolny" opened, dedicated to the teaching of the Smolyan Fine Arts. Then in the "Stucco" Hall "a small concert was held with the participation of Mariinsky Theater artists who performed musical works that sounded at the Smolny Institute in different years.
The events are dedicated to the 255th anniversary of the Smolny Institute Educational Society of Noble Maidens, founded by Empress Catherine II and laid the foundation for all women's education in Russia.
The plot of the event on the air of the TV channel "St. Petersburg": https://topspb.tv/news/2019/07/2/sakvoyazh-napolnennyj-istoriej-novyj-eksponat-muzeya-smolnogo/