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:

    “The imperial multiplicatornothing can nonplus:
    My mother Nature is the origin of it all.”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)

    “...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)