High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Russian Academy or Imperial Russian Academy (Russian: Akademiya Rossijskaya, Imperatorskaya Rossijskaya akademiya) was established in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1783 by Empress Catherine II of Russia and princess Dashkova as a research center for Russian language and Russian literature, following the example of the Acad mie fran aise. In 1841 it was merged into the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences).
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