Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts

For the similarly-named London society, see Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
The Society's building in 1912, on Bolshaya Morskaya in Saint Petersburg; currently occupied by the Russian Artists' Union. It is a registered monument of the "Cultural Heritage of the Russian Federation"[1]

The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (Russian: Императорское общество поощрения художеств (ОПХ)) was an organization devoted to promoting the arts that existed in Saint Petersburg from 1820 to 1929. It was the oldest society of its kind in Russia. Until 1882 it was called the "Society for the Encouragement of Artists". After 1917, it became the "All-Russian Society for the Encouragement of the Arts".[2]

  1. ^ Listing @ the Cultural Heritage website.
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