Imperial Academy

Imperial Academy may refer to:

  • The Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg.
  • The Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (old name).
  • The former Imperial Military Academy in St Petersburg.
  • The Imperial Academy of Music in Vienna, now the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
  • The Imperial Academy of Arts in Vienna, now the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
  • The Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy.
  • The Guozijian, the highest institution of learning in pre-modern China.
  • The fictional Imperial Academy in the Star Wars series.

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or academy:

    “All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)