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Lyceum


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Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture

LYCEUM, Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum renamed Alexandrovsky Lyceum in 1843, a privileged higher education institution providing training for state officials. It was founded in 1810 and opened on 19 October 1811, in the wing of the Catherine Palace built by architect V. P. Stasov. The lyceum enrolled boys from the nobility aged 10 to 12. Initially under the control of the Ministry of Public Education, it was placed under the Military Department in 1822 and the Department of Establishments of Empress Maria in 1843. It was transferred to St. Petersburg on 1 January 1844, to be situated in the former Alexandrinsky Orphan's Home at 21 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue built by architect L. I. Charlemagne in 1832-34. The education consisted of six years, junior classes receiving high school education and senior classes receiving university education. The lyceum had a Noble Boarding School attached to it in 1814-29 and a preparatory class from 1882. Among the teachers were V. F. Malinovsky, E. A. Engelgardt, A. P. Kunitsyn, N. F. Koshansky, and A. I. Galich. The curriculum mainly comprised of the humanities, especially law, also focusing on physical training, music, and drawing. Military education gave lyceum graduates the same rights as graduates of the Page Corps. The first class graduated in 1817, which included among its graduates Alexander Pushkin, A. M. Gorchakov, K. K. Danzas, A. A. Delwig, M. A. Korf, V. K. Kuchelbecker, F. F. Matyushkin, and I. I. Pushchin. It had 74 classes of graduates in 107 years totalling about two thousand people, among them prominent statesmen, public figures, scientists, and writers, including M. V. Petrashevsky, K. S. Veselovsky, A. V. Golovin, N. Y. Danilevsky, K. K. Grot, Y. K. Grot, A. B. Lobanov-Rostovsky, L. A. Mey, M. K. Reitern, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, D. A. Tolstoy, M. L. Yakovlev, et al. The lyceum opened the Pushkin Museum in the 1840s, and the Pushkin Library was opened in 1879, and Pushkin Lyceum Society founded in 1899, as well as a Lyceum Library made up of works written by its pupils. It was closed in 1917 by decree of the Provisional Government, and a group of lyceum graduates were condemned for a trumped-up case in 1925 (see Lyceum Graduates' Case). The lyceum building now accommodates the Alexandrovsky Vocational Lyceum, which provides elementary and secondary vocational education.

Reference: Егоров А. Д. Императорский Александровский (бывш. Царскосельский) лицей: В 3 ч. Иваново, 1995; Руденская С. Д. Царскосельский - Александровский лицей, 1811-1817. СПб., 1999; Павлова С. В. Императорский Александровский (бывш. Царскосельский) лицей. СПб., 2002.

А. P. Kupaygorodskaya.

Persons
Charlemagne Ludwig Iosifovich
Danilevsky Nikolay Yakovlevich
Danzas Konstantin Karlovich
Delwig Anton Antonovich
Engelgardt Egor Antonovich
Galich Alexander Ivanovich
Golovnin Alexander Vasilievich
Gorchakov Alexander Mikhailovich, Duke
Grot Konstantin Karlovich
Grot Yakov Karlovich
Korf Modest Andreevich, Count
Koshansky Nikolay Fedorovich
Kuchelbecker Wilhelm Karlovich
Kunitsyn Alexander Petrovich
Lobanov-Rostovsky Alexey Borisovich, Duke
Malinovsky Vasily Fedorovich
Matyushkin Fedor Fedorovich
Mey Lev Alexandrovich
Petrashevsky (Butashevich-Petrashevsky) Mikhail Vasilievich
Pushchin Ivan Ivanovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Reitern Mikhail Khristoforovich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Stasov Vasily Petrovich
Tolstoy Dmitry Andreevich, Count
Veselovsky Konstantin Stepanovich
Yakovlev Mikhail Lukianovich

Addresses
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Sadovaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 2

Bibliographies
Руденская С. Д. Царскосельский - Александровский лицей, 1811-1817. СПб., 1999
Егоров А. Д. Императорский Александровский (бывш. Царскосельский) лицей: В 3 ч. Иваново, 1995
Павлова С. В. Императорский Александровский (бывш. Царскосельский) лицей. СПб., 2002

The subject Index
Catherine Palace (Town of Pushkin)
Empress Maria's Department of Institutions
Page Corps
Pushkin Society
Provisional Government of 1917
Case of Pupils of the Lyceum

Chronograph
1811
1844


1811

19 October. The Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum , one of the progressive educational establishments of Russia in the early 19th cent., was opened for the preparation "young people, particularly for the important state work"
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1815

The Hause of Kannobio ( the wooden house, a splendid example of the Russian Classicism) was built according to the design of V.I. Geste in Leontyevskaya Street (its present address is 18 Leontyevskaya Street). 8 January
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1842

23 May. The famous event "Merry -Go-Round at Tsarskoye Serlo" was arranged with almost all members of the family of Emperor Nicholas I, in medieval costumes, with real medieval armour
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1899

26 May. The liturgy and pannychis in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin were performed in the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Tsarskoye Selo
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1912

11 January. The memorial plaque with the inscription "The Emperor Lyceum Was Placed in This Building from 1811 untill 1843" was opened on the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum by the 100th anniversary of its founding
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1923

19717 members of tour group visited palace-museums of Detskoye Selo. 14 September. The first race of the autumn Marathon Pushkin - Leningrad took place. Twenty people took part in the race. M.I
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1925

The spring. A.A. Akhmatova, O.E. and N.Ya. Mandelshtam lived in the boarding house of Zaitsev in Detskoye Selo where they were visited by Pavel Luknitsky collecting materials about N.S. Gumilyov
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1927

January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1949

10 June. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR S.I. Vavilov cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the first exposition of the Museum of A.S. Pushkin which was placed in the Alexander Palace (the museum worked until 1951)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1965

January. Marina Nikolayevna Petay was appointed as the director of the All-Union Museum of A.S. Pushkin (the Lyceum, the Dacha of Kitayeva are branches of the museum), she worked in this position until 1988
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1974

6 June. The reconstruction of the Lyceum was finished; the reconstruction was based on the research work of the Lyceum keeper M.P. Rudensky and the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Alexander I, Emperor (1777-1825)

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Balashov A.D., Governor General in 1809-10

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Case of Pupils of the Lyceum

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Central St. Petersburg State Historical Archive

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Charlemagne L. I. (1784-1845), architect

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Chebyshev P.L., (1821-1894), mathematician

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Danilevsky N.Y. (1822 - 1885), philosopher

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Decembrists

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Empress Maria's Department of Institutions

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Golenischev-Kutuzov P.V., Governor General 1825-30

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Gorchakov A.M., (1798-1883), statesman

GORCHAKOV Alexander Mikhailovich (1798-1883), Serene High Prince (1871), statesman, diplomat, State Chancellor (1867), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1856). Descended from the ancient princely Rurik Dynasty

Grot Y.K., (1812-1893), linguist

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Kamennoostrovsky Avenue

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Kareev N.I. (1850-1931), historian

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Koni A.F. (1844-1927), lawyer, public figure

KONI Anatoly Fedorovich (1844, St Petersburg 1927, Leningrad), lawyer, statesman, man of letters, Actual Privy Counsellor (1910); Doctor of Law (1890), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900)

Libraries (entry)

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Maria Fedorovna (1847-1928), the Empress

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Myakotin V.A. (1867-1937), historian, public and political figure

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Nabokov Family

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Petrashevsky M.V. (1821-1866), revolutionary

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Platonov S.F., (1860-1933), historian

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Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837), poet

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Pushkin, 1 Sadovaya Sreet, the Lyceum, a commemorative plaque

“The Imperial Lyceum was placed in this building from 1811 until 1843” 1911 – January 1912.

Pushkin, town

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Saltykov-Shchedrin M. E. (1826-1889), writer

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Serno-Solovyevich N.A. (1834-1866), revolutionary

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Speshnev N. A. (1821-1882), revolutionary

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The commemorative plaque devoted to A.S. Pushkin.

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Weiner P. P., (1879-1931), publisher of the journal Starye Gody

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