Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences is the national academy of Russia, together with a network of scientific research institutes across the Russian Federation and units such as libraries, publishing houses and hospitals. Peter the Great established it in 1724, then as the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, with guidance from Gottfried Leibniz. It drew on foreign scholars as professors, received its first clear set of goals in the 1747 Charter, and was known as the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences before the Soviet period. It is now headquartered in Moscow. In this atlas it appears as the Saint Petersburg institution that employed Leonhard Euler and elected Carl Friedrich Gauss a member in 1802.