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Originally founded on Petersburg Island (1725). Transferred to the palace built for Tsarina Praskovia Fyodorovna, next to the Kunstkammer, on Vasilyevsky Island (1728). Giacomo Quarenghi designed a new building housing the Academy shops, bookstore and staff apartments (1783–89).
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