Archaeological Institute

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, named the Imperial Archaeological Institute until 1917, educational research institution training in archaeology and archives management. Founded in 1877 on the initiative of N. V. Kalachov, who became the first director of the institution, it was situated at 11/2 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island at first and 14 Ekaterininsky Canal Embankment afterwards. The curriculum including archaeological disciplines and auxiliary historical sciences, the education takes two years. The institute provided free education to graduates, with I. E. Andreevsky, S. F. Platonov, N. V. Pokrovsky, I. I. Sreznevsky, et al. working as teachers. The institute published Articles of the Archaeological Institute in 1878-98 and Archaeological and Historical News in 1885-1918. The institute was reorganised into the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of Petrograd University's Department of Social Sciences.

References: Речи, адресы и приветствия по случаю двадцатипятилетия и тридцатилетия Института, 1878-1908. СПб., 1908; Памятная книжка Императорского Археологического института в С.-Петербурге, 1878-1911 гг. СПб., 1911.

O. N. Ansberg. Andreevsky Ivan Efimovich
Kalachov Nikolay Vasilievich
Platonov Sergey Fedorovich
Pokrovsky Nikolay Vasilievich
Sreznevsky Izmail Ivanovich
9th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2/11
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Речи, адресы и приветствия по случаю двадцатипятилетия и тридцатилетия Института, 1878-1908. СПб., 1908
Памятная книжка Императорского Археологического института в С.-Петербурге, 1878-1911 гг. СПб., 1911