institution
Imperial Academy of Arts
the Academy
also: Академическая выставка, Academy exhibition, Императорская Академия художеств
St. Petersburg's official state fine-arts academy and the annual exhibition it mounted; Chekhov found its 1887 show weak, unfavorably compared to the rival Wanderers' exhibition.
Reading notes
- To I. L. Leontyev, 1 January 1888. Moscow. §18 the Academy
The Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, whose exhibitions and affairs Chekhov tracks elsewhere in his correspondence with Shcheglov's Petersburg circle.