🖼 Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum

Садовая ул., 2, Пушкин

A wing of the Catherine Palace where Pushkin studied: the library, the assembly hall and the lyceum students' rooms.

The Lyceum opened on 19 October 1811 — graduates later celebrated this day as “Lyceum Day”.
At first it was also meant to teach Alexander I's younger brothers, Nicholas and Michael.
The wing was built in the 1790s for Paul I's daughters, and in 1811 Vasily Stasov rebuilt it as the Lyceum.
The curriculum was drawn up by Mikhail Speransky; boys aged 10–14 were admitted and studied for six years.
Pushkin's classmates included Gorchakov, Küchelbecker and Pushchin.
In 1843 the Lyceum was moved to Petersburg, to Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, and named the Alexander Lyceum.
The memorial museum opened in 1949, when the neighbouring Kustov Lane was renamed Litseisky (Lyceum) Lane.

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