wrost days of my life
I enrolled in this 'academy' thinking it was a real university. After a few weeks, I realized it was a FAKE institution and left. By the first of November after only 4 weeks I suspected I'd fallen for a money grab SCAM, by December I had emailed every professor at the St. Petersburg academy of art in Russia. At the end of the month, I received unsettling news, they were not the academy they told me they were, the partnership with the Repin academy had been resigned in 2019 and they still used the name and logo to SCAM students.
Let me illustrate to you the situation in this 'academy'.
First of all the 'professor' was an unstable woman that did not speak Italian or English let's call her S.T.
S.T. was the worst professor I ever had in 25 years of my life, she had no idea of what she was doing, and she had no way to talk with us, her only teaching method was to let us paint and then come over cancel what we where doing and paint over it in her way, take out her phone and take a photo of it post on their Instagram profile (social media is a big part of their SCAM). She was the only drawing and painting professor we had...
The director, a psychopathic and cold woman called N.P, taught restoration and painting material.
N.P. is not accredited by the Italian Ministero dei Beni Culturali, I discovered it later in the story, to teach or perform restoration. The 'school' is also not accredited by the Italian government, so their diploma is not valid, real or valuable. N.P. is maybe the worst human being I have ever encountered in my life apart from her husband G.C., a small man with a fake smile and also a cold heart. She is the head of the SCAM, she is the one that lies to you every day inventing stories about her prestigious academy. They make the students pay in total the year tuition and some students have paid in cash (6.000 euros in cash, can you imagine?), they don't present to you a contract or agreement. After you realize you have been SCAMMED their mask fall, and their violent and untrustful nature comes out. The diploma mill they operate is nefarious. PLEASE STAY FROM THESE PEOPLE.