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:

    “Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare,
    And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)