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The Imperial Lyceum (Императорский Царскосельский лицей, Imperatorskiy Tsarskosel'skiy litsey) in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg, also known historically as the Imperial Alexander Lyceum after its founder Tsar Alexander I, was an educational institution which was founded in 1811 with the object of educating ...
The four storied house, which stands close to the Church of the Miraculous Apparition, is still called the Lyceum. From 1811 to 1843 it was occupied by the Imperial Lyceum of Tsarskoe Selo. The great Russian poet Pushkin was educated here. His room is in the fourth story with a window facing the garden, and bears the number 14.
The Alexander Palace (built from 1792 onwards) was first the home of Catherine the Great's grandson, the Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, who later became Emperor Alexander I (r. 1801–1825). After his abdication, Nicholas II and his family were held there by revolutionary forces under house arrest until 13 August 1917.
Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum acquired its historical glory, first of all, owing to its graduates of 1817 - Alexander Pushkin, A. A. Delvig, A. M. Gorchakov, Decembrists W. C. Kuchelbecker and I. I. Pushchin.
The Imperial Lyceum (Императорский Царскосельский лицей, Imperatorskiy Tsarskosel'skiy litsey) in Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg, also known historically as the Imperial Alexander Lyceum after its founder Tsar Alexander I, was an educational institution which was founded in 1811 with the object of educating ...
In 1811, the Imperial Lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo was opened in a wing of the Catherine Palace, and it became one of the empire’s most prestigious educational institutions.
The Lyceum was opened under the order of Emperor Alexander I just next to the Yekaterninsky tsar palace in Tsarskoye Selo, not far St. Petersburg. There is now a museum inside the Lyceum where...
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