The Russian Academy or Imperial Russian Academy () was established in St. Petersburg,

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, in 1783 by Empress

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and princess Dashkova as a research center for

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and

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, following the example of the

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. In 1841 it was merged into the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences).

Presidents

* 1783–1796 – Yekaterina Dashkova (concurrently serving as the Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences) * 1796–1801 – Pavel Bakunin (Бакунин, Павел Петрович) (concurrently serving as the Director, and later President, of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences) * 1801–1813 – Andrey Andreyevich Nartov (Нартов, Андрей Андреевич) * 1813–1841 – Aleksandr Shishkov (Шишков, Александр Семёнович)

Presidents

See also