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The academy developed an extensive program that awarded a number of academic degrees. These included the degree of doctor of theology, master of theology, and candidate of theology. The faculty included many prominent clerics and lay professors including among the [[clergy]]- Evgeny (Bolkhovitinov), Makary (Bulgakov), and Philaret (Drozdov) and Antony (Vadkovsky) who were rectors from 1812 to 1820 and from 1887 to 1892 respectively and among the laity - Professor V. V. Bolotov, A. P. Lopukhin, and A.A. Dmitrievsky.
Among the prominent graduates of the academy from the early period were Ss [[John of Kronstadt]] and [[Tikhon of Moscow]], Bp. Theophan the Recluse, Metr. [[Benjamin (Kazansky)of Petrograd and Gdovsk|Benjamin (Kazansky)]], [[Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan]], and many other hierarchs, theologians, and church historians. The academy developed into a center of theological and historical research that as well as produced translations of the Church Fathers. The results of this research were published in journals of the academy that were from 1821 the ''Khristianskoe Chtenie'' and from 1874 the ''Tserkovny Vestnik.
As the academy entered the twentieth century it under went major changes and trials. In 1913, the name of the academy was changed to the Imperial Theological Academy. Then, following the Bolshevik take-over in late 1917, of the government of Russia, the academy was closed in 1918. The facilities of the academy were seized by the Soviets and turn into an orphanage. During the period of 1920 to 1928, the functions of the academy were continued through the Theological Institute and Higher Theological Courses.
