institution

Imperial Academy of Sciences

Academy of Sciences

also: Академия наук

Russia's chief learned society, seated in St. Petersburg; the butt of an anecdote about a member who mistranslated the idiom 'married on Krasnaya Gorka' as marrying a woman by that name.

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Krasnaya Gorka §52 Academy of Sciences
The Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia's chief learned society; invoked here for the anecdote of a German academician who mistranslated the idiom 'he married on Krasnaya Gorka' as marrying a woman literally named 'Krasnaya Gorka.'
To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 9 October 1888. Moscow. §8 the Academy of Sciences has awarded me the Pushkin Prize
The Imperial Academy of Sciences' Pushkin Prize of 500 roubles, awarded for the 1887 story collection "V sumerkakh" ("Twilight"); part of the same news cluster discussed in the letters to Grigorovich and Pleshcheyev of the same day, and to Suvorin the following day.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 23 November 1888. Moscow. §7 the Academy
The Imperial Academy of Sciences and its Pushkin Prize, already the subject of Chekhov's anxious follow-up in \S7 and \S5.