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world authority of Russian Fine Arts and the Russian Painting School
is well-known. The higher school of masters of Russian Art and
the center of artistic life of the country is situated in the Academy
of Three Main Arts that was founded on initiative of I.I.Shuvalov and
M.V.Lomonosov by the ukase of the Senate in 1757. The study started
in 1758 in several classes - in the class of painting, sculpture, architecture
and medal making. Six years later Privileges and Statutes of Emperor
Academy of Three Main Arts were approved by the imperial ukase of Empress
Katherine II. It was a legislative recognition of the government self-value
and self-dependence of artistic activity. Nowadays the Roman figures
MDCCLXIV inlaid with mosaic on the floor of the Academy carry back to
that day.
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