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Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov under the name "Academy of the Three Noblest Arts". Catherine the Great renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789 by the Neva River. The academy promoted the neoclassical style and technique, and sent its promising students to European capitals for further study. Training at the academy was virtually required for artists to make successful careers.
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Ivan Shuvalov Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Шува́лов ; 1 November 172714 November 1797) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and Academy of Arts were instituted with his active participation.
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Pyotr Kikin Pyotr Andreyevich Kikin (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Кикин; 27 December 1775, Alatyr - 18 May 1834, Saint Petersburg?) was a Russian general and a Secretary of State under Tsar Alexander I.
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Vladimir Makovsky Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский ; 26 January (greg.: 7 February) 1846, Moscow - 21 February 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher.
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Vladimir Krylov (general) Vladimir Vasilyevich Krylov (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Кры́лов , Bulgarian: Владимир Крилов ; 1831 – April 1885) was a Russian Imperial Army general who served as the Minister of War of the Principality of Bulgaria (1881–1882).
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Apollon Mokritsky Apollon Nikolayevich Mokritsky (Ukrainian: Аполлон Миколайович Мокрицький , "Apollon Mokrytskyi"; Russian: Аполлон Николаевич Мокрицкий , "Apollon Mokritsky", August 1810 – 1870) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter of the Biedermeier period of Realist art. From 1849, he was a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.
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Leontiy Semeonovich Miropolskiy Leontiy Semenovich Mitropolsky (Russian: Миропольский, Леонтий Семёнович ) (also known as Miropol'skii) (1749 - 1819 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian painter, portraitist, copyist and an icon painter. He is an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1794.
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Friedrich Caspar von Geismar Friedrich Caspar von Geismar (also known as Fyodor Geismar, Russian: Фёдор Клементьевич Гейсмар ; 1783-1848) was an Austrian-German military officer who spent the best part of his career in the service of Imperial Russian Army. He eventually rose to the rank of General and became an adjutant to tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
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Vasily Bazhenov Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Баже́нов ) (March 1 (N.S. 12), 1737 or 1738 – August 2 (N.S. 13), 1799) was a Russian neoclassical architect, graphic artist, architectural theorist and educator. Bazhenov and his associates Matvey Kazakov and Ivan Starov were the leading local architects of the Russian Enlightenment, a period dominated by foreign architects (Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi, Antonio Rinaldi and others). According to Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in the 1770s Bazhenov became the first Russian architect to create a national architectural language since the 17th century tradition interrupted by Peter I of Russia.
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Aleksey Korin Aleksey Mikhailovich Korin (Russian: Алексей Михайлович Корин; 16 March 1865, Palekh - 13 February 1923, Marino, Tver Governorate) was a Russian genre painter. He was a member of the Peredvizhniki and a Professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Ivan Romanov Ivan Nikitich Romanov, "Russian" Иван Никитич Романов (156? – 16 July 1640) was the uncle of Tsar Michael I, first Romanov Tsar of Russia.
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Nikolay Maykov Nikolay Apollonovich Maykov (Russian: Николай Аполлонович Майков ; 28 August 1794, Moscow - 23 August 1873, Saint Petersburg) was a self-taught Russian portrait, history and religious painter in the Academic style.
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Alexander Abaza Alexander Ageevich Abaza (Александр Агеевич Абаза 1821–1895) was one of the most liberal of the advisors of Alexander II of Russia. He served as minister of finance from 1880–1881, and unsuccessfully urged the tsar to transform Imperial Russia into a constitutional monarchy. In his career he also served as State Comptroller (1871–1874) and as chairman of State Council's Department of the State Economy (1874–1880 and 1884–1892). He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle, the Order of Saint Vladimir, the Order of Saint Anna and the Order of Saint Stanislaus.
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Nikolay Novikov Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Новико́в ) (8 May [O.S. 27 April] 1744 , Moscow Governorate – 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1818 . Moscow Governorate) was a Russian writer and philanthropist most representative of his country's Enlightenment. Frequently considered to be the first Russian journalist, he aimed at advancing the cultural and educational level of the Russian public.
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Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Шува́лов ) (27 July 1827, Saint Petersburg – 22 March 1889, Saint Petersburg) was an influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Tsar Alexander II. Referring to his court influence and reactionary policies, his more liberal opponents sometimes called him "Peter IV" (Pyotr is the Russian form for Peter, referring to the three emperors of Russia named Peter) and "Arakcheyev II".
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Alexander Polovtsov Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsov (Russian: Александр Александрович Половцов ; 1832–1909) was a Russian statesman, historian and "maecenas", the founder of the Russian Historian Society.
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Ivan Betskoy Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi or Betskoy (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Бе́цкой ; 14 February [O.S. 3 February] 1704 11 September [O.S. 31 August] 1795 ) was a Russian school reformer who served as Catherine II's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for thirty years (1764–94). Perhaps the crowning achievement of his long career was the establishment of Russia's first unified system of public education.
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Active Privy Councillor Active Privy Councillor (Russian: действительный тайный советник , deystvitelny tayniy sovetnik) was the civil rank (ru: чин / tsin) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722. That was a civil rank of the 2nd class and equal to those of General-in-Chief in the Army and Admiral in the Navy. The rank holder should be addressed as "Your High Excellency" (Russian: Ваше Высокопревосходительство , Vashe Vysokoprevoskhoditelstvo). If the Foreign Minister had the rank of the 2nd class, he could be called Vice-Chancellor.
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List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia Ministers of Imperial Russia
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Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai (better: Nicolay) (1737–1820) (after adopting Orthodoxy Russian: Андрей Львович ) was a poet of the Enlightenment, librarian, secretary, academician and the President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
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Imperial Russian Historical Society The Imperial Russian Historical Society (Russian - Императорское Русское историческое общество) was a public organization of Imperial Russia. It was subject to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Education. It was founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1917. It published studies on Russian history and historical documents connected with the Imperial Russian state. It is most notable as the publisher of the "Russian Biographical Dictionary". Its emblem was an image of the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.
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Konstantin Ushinsky Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky (Russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Уши́нский ; Ukrainian: Костянтин Дмитрович Ушинський ) (2 March [O.S. 19 February] 1824  – 3 January 1871 [O.S. 22 December] ) was a Russian teacher and writer, credited as the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia.