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{{Short description|Lyceum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1811–1918}}
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| name                    = Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
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| established             = 31 October 1811
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| city                    = [[Pushkin, Saint Petersburg|Tsarskoye Selo]]
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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 youths of the best families who would afterwards occupy important posts in the Imperial service.
[[Image:Liceum building in Tsarskoe Selo 02.jpg|thumb|300px|The yard of the Imperial Lyceum.]]
Its regulations were published on 11 January 1811, but they had received the Imperial sanction on 12 August 1810, when the four-story "new" wing of the Great Palace was appointed for its accommodation. The Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum was opened on 19 October 1811. The first graduates included [[Alexander Pushkin]] and [[Alexander Gorchakov]]. In January 1844, the Lyceum was moved to [[St Petersburg]].
In May 1918, the Lyceum was closed following order by the [[Council of People's Commissars]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexandrovsky Lyceum |url=https://petersburg24.ru/eng/place/aleksandrovskij-licej |website=Петербург 24 |access-date=5 May 2024}}</ref>
[[Image:Pushkin derzhavin.jpg|thumb|300px|''14-year-old [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin]] reciting his poem before old [[Gavrila Derzhavin|Derzhavin]] in the Lyceum'' (painting by [[Ilya Repin]] from 1911, the school's [[centennial]]).]]
During the 33 years of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum's existence, there were 286 graduates. The most famous of these, in addition to the above two, were [[Anton Delvig]], [[Wilhelm Kuchelbecker]], [[Nicholas de Giers]], [[Dmitry Tolstoy]], [[Yakov Grot]], [[Nikolay Danilevsky]], [[Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky]], [[Fyodor Shcherbatskoy]] and [[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]].
==See also==
* [[List of Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum people]]
== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.alexanderpalace.org/2006tsarskoe/lyceum.html The Imperial Lyceum] - from Tsarskoye Selo in 1910
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051216175624/http://www.pushkin.ru/gym1.html Pushkin and the Lyceum] (in Russian)
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