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  • 1Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts — For other uses, see Cava (disambiguation). Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts is a visual art school in Mysore. The Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA), is situated in the city of Mysore, in the state of Karnataka in India. The academy… …

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  • 2arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 3Russian Empire — Infobox Former Country native name = Российская Империя (ru Cyrl) Rossiyskaya Imperiya (translit) conventional long name = Russian Empire common name = Russia| continent = Eurasia status = Empire government type = Monarchy| year start = 1721 year …

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  • 4Russian Revival — The Russian Revival style ( ru. Псевдорусский, неорусский стиль) is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of pre Peterine… …

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  • 5Russian history, 1721–1796 — The era of Russian palace revolutionsPeter changed the rules of succession to the throne after he executed his own son, Aleksey, who had opposed his father s reforms and served as a rallying figure for antireform groups. A new law provided that… …

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  • 6Russian language — Russian русский язык (russkiy yazyk) Pronunciation [ˈrusʲkʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] Spoken in Russia, countries of the fo …

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  • 7Russian neoclassical revival — was a trend in Russian culture, mostly pronounced in architecture, that briefly replaced eclecticism and Art Nouveau as the leading architectural style between the Revolution of 1905 and the outbreak of World War I, coexisting with the Silver Age …

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  • 8Russian Enlightenment — The Russian Age of Enlightenment was a period in the eighteenth century in which the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences. This time gave birth to the first Russian university, library, theatre, public… …

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  • 9National academy — A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the… …

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  • 10Sciences, Academy of — ▪ French organization French  Académie des Sciences        institution established in Paris in 1666 under the patronage of Louis XIV to advise the French government on scientific matters. This advisory role has been largely taken over by other… …

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