Smolna, Helsinki

The Smolna is an Empire style building in the Kaartinkaupunki district of Helsinki, Finland.

It is used as a banquet hall of the Cabinet of Finland and state visit meeting premises of the President and the Prime Minister.

The Smolna was completed in 1822 as the house of the inspector general of the Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

During the 1918 Finnish Civil War, the house served as the Red Guard headquarters and was nicknamed ″Smolna″, after the Bolshevik headquarters in the Smolny Institute of Saint Petersburg.

The building was first the residence of the German general Rüdiger von der Goltz and the regent of Finland C. G. E. Mannerheim until 1919.

Officers of the German Baltic Sea Division in front of Smolna