The founder of Imperial Academy of Arts was the first Russian Minister of what?
Education
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov under the name "Academy of the Three Noblest Arts".
 Catherine the Great renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789 by the Neva River.
 The academy promoted the neoclassical style and technique, and sent its promising students to European capitals for further study.
 Training at the academy was virtually required for artists to make successful careers.
Ivan Shuvalov
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Шува́лов ; 1 November 172714 November 1797) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education.
 Russia's first theatre, university, and Academy of Arts were instituted with his active participation.
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Brazil)
The Imperial Academy of Fine Arts ("Portuguese: "Academia Imperial de Belas Artes" ") was an institution of higher learning in the arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, established by King João VI.
 Despite facing many initial difficulties, the Academy was established and took its place at the forefront of Brazilian arts education in the second half of the nineteenth century.
 The Academy became the center of the diffusion of new aesthetic trends and the teaching of modern artistic techniques.
 It eventually became one of the principal arts institutions under the patronage of Emperor Dom Pedro II.
 With the Proclamation of the Republic, it became known as the National School of Fine Arts.
 It became extinct as an independent institution in 1931, when it was absorbed by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFF) and became known as the UFF School of Fine Arts, which still operates today. Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy
Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy (1858—1916) was an Imperial Russian politician.
 He served as Vice President of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts while Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich was Academy President.
 He later served as Imperial Minister of Education in the Witte Government. Pyotr Petrov
Pyotr Nikolayevich Petrov (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Петров , 1 July 1827, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 10 April 1891, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, arts historian and critic, genealogist, bibliographer, an honourable member of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Russian Archeological Society. Vladimir Stasov
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov (sometimes transliterated as Stassov; Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ста́сов ; 14 January 1824, Saint Petersburg – 23 October 1906, Saint Petersburg), son of Russian architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov (1769–1848), was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime.
 He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence in 1843, was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1859, and was made honorary fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1900, together with his friend Leo Tolstoy. Alexey Olenin
Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin (Aleksey Nikolaevich Olenin, Russian: Алексей Николаевич Оленин ; 9 December [O.S. 28 November] 1763 in Moscow – 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1843 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian archaeologist, most notable for being a director of the Imperial Public Library between 1811 and 1843 and the sixth president of the Imperial Academy of Arts between 1817 and 1843. Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov
Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (1733–1811) was a Russian baron and a member of the Stroganov family.
 He was a member of the Private Committee (Негласный комитет) of Alexander I and assistant to the Minister of the Interior, a longtime President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, director of the Russian Imperial Library and a member of the Russian Academy. Maximilian Messmacher
Maximilian Egorovich Messmacher (also referred to as Maximilian von Messmacher) (Russian: Максимилиан Егорович Месмахер ) (1842–1906) was a Russian architect of German ancestry.
 He attended the School of Painting of St. Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of Arts and thereafter the Imperial Academy of Arts, graduating in 1866.
 He was Professor of artistic and industrial painting as well as the history of decorative styles.
 He also developed a coherent system of academic training in arts.
 His main activities are however related to architecture and interior decoration.
 He engaged in the architecture and interior decoration of palaces of the members of the imperial family and of the mansions of aristocrats, as well as of several churches. Alexander Kokorinov
Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov (Russian: Александр Филиппович Кокоринов ) (July 10, 1726 – March 21, 1772) was a Russian architect and educator, one of the founders, the first builder, director (1761) and rector (1769) of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Peterburg.
 Kokorinov has been house architect of the Razumovsky family and Ivan Shuvalov, the first President of the Academy.
 Kokorinov's surviving architectural legacy, once believed to be substantial, has been reduced by recent research to only two buildings, the Imperial Academy of Arts and Kirill Razumovsky palace in Saint Petersburg.
 The Academy was designed by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe based on an earlier proposal by Jacques-François Blondel, while Kokorinov managed the construction in its early phases (1764–1772).