Akademiya blagih nadezhd

Istoriya sozdaniya Sankt-Peterburgskoy Imperatorskoy Akademii nauk do sih por porozhdaet u specialistov samye protivorechivye ocenki - ot voshischennyh do rezko otricatel'nyh. Vo mnogom avantyurnyy proekt Petra I po otkrytiyu vysshego uchenogo uchrezhdeniya v massovo negramotnoy strane odni traktuyut kak genial'noe novovvedenie, polozhivshee nachalo stanovleniyu rossiyskoy nauki, drugie - kak gubitel'nyy otkaz ot kul'turnoy samobytnosti. Avtory knigi - izvestnye istoriki nauki - rasskazyvayut o sozdanii Peterburgskoy Akademii nauk i pervyh semi desyatiletiyah ee suschestvovaniya. Osnovnoy akcent sdelan na analize slozhnyh otnosheniy mezhdu uchenymi i byurokratiey - kak vnutriakademicheskoy, tak i gosudarstvennoy.