Lyceum

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