English: Building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed in early 19 century for the w:Russian Academy of humanities that was modeled after the French Academy of language and literature worked since 1783 as set up by Catherine II the Great of Russia and originally chaired by her learned friend Countess w:Catherine Dashkova. The Academy created the first, multivolume dictionary of Russian, translated foreign authors and published them and Russian writers and historians, awarded its own medals for research and writing. The Academy used this building since early 19 century until 1841, when it was merged as the language and literature section with the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences into Russian Academy of Sciences and vacated this building which was subsequently given by authorities to the Roman Catholic Academy created as the main institution of the Russian Empire for training Roman Catholic clergy for Polish and Lithuanian subjects of the Empire that included their lands. The Academy was styled Emperors under Nicholas I of Russia who visited it. It was derived from theology college of Vilnius University and after the Bolshevik revolution was in 1918 moved to Lublin in the newly independent Poland. From that time the building has kept the inside chapel of the Polish academic Saint w:John Cantius though in poor condition. The building was occupied then by various organisations, mostly educational. Then it was transferred to the city's united teacher-training Leningrad State Pedagogics Institute named after the Russian writer and political thinker Alexander Herzen, served as a dormitory until in early 1990s from the main campus off Nevsky Avenue was relocated the College/ School / Faculty of Russian Language and Literature, expanded to also offer majors in other languages and applied linguistics until 2013 and renamed to Philology College / Faculty of Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogics University (w:Herzen University). The building also houses Herzen University professional development unit. Street address: 52 1st linia of Vassiliyevskiy Island, St Petersburg Russia