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Academy of Sciences
Read more...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 n...
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Academy of Arts
Read more...Founded by resolution of the Senate (6 November 1757). Based on a project of Count Ivan Shuvalov, the first director, for an “Academy of the Three Noblest Arts” – a closed educational establishment wi...
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