Презентация, доклад к уроку английского языка Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (8-9 класс)

object of educating youths of the best families, who should afterwards. occupy important posts in the Imperial service. Its regulations were published on the 11th of January 1811, although they had received the Imperial sanction on the 12th of August 1810.

Alexander I on August 12, 1810. The decree stated: “The establishment of the lyceum aims at the formation of young people, especially dedicated to occupy important posts in the Imperial service”. The choice of the location for the Lyceum was also not accidental. The lyceum was located in the building adjacent to the Catherine Palace. According to its creators, the proximity of the royal court was to help in the education of the future government officials.

offered by the best European universities. But this was not the main thing. On the day of the official opening, the first director of the Lyceum, Alexander Petrovich Kunitsyn (1783-1840), turned to the new students and said: «Love for glory and your country should be your leader».

Later Pushkin will respond to him in one of his poems:
Kunitsyn gift of heart and wine: He created us, he raised our flame; Providing the foundation stone, Lighting a clean lamp.

get up at 6 am and study in class for 7 hours every day. The first three years, the students followed the program of high school gymnasium. The next three years were devoted to the program of three faculties: philology, moral science and politics, physic and mathematic.

outdoor games, dancing, riding, fencing, swimming. No matter the weather, students of the Lyceum had to walk around the park for several hours everyday, to harden their organism and give them a fearless and independent character. Graduated students will remembered their years at the Lyceum as the best years of their lives.

by Ilya Repin from 1911, the school's centennial).

in exile, but even with such a terrible punishment the poet was ready to forgive Alexander, crediting him for the creation of the Lyceum: Let us forgive him unjust persecution: He took Paris, and founded the Lyceum.

can’t be broken. It withstands all, free, careless, and outspoken: Our links were formed by friendship and the Muse. Where’er we’re cast by Fate, whate’er it’s storing, Wherever happiness might let us roam, We’re still the same: the whole world’s strange and foreign, And Tsarskoye Selo is our true home. (“October 19”. A. Pushkin)

of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum's existence, there were 286 graduates. Among them Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Gorchakov, Anton Delvig, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Nicholas de Giers, Dmitry Tolstoy, Yakov Grot, Nikolay Danilevsky, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.