Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, without exaggeration, be called the melting pot, where all was forged and honed talent ASPushkin.It is not just that the walls of this institution were written the first poem, and not even in the fact that here he noticed a prominent Russian journalist Gabriel Derzhavin.
Tsarskoye Selo was that the cradle where to discover and develop the personality of Alexander, where he established himself as a poet.Pushkin Lyceum student later changed his style, but always remembered adolescent years with a special warmth.
Why Tsarskoye Selo?
Pushkin was a difficult teenager, but because his parents were forced to think seriously about continuing education and training in the offspring of some strict and closed institution.And then just stood out occasion.Alexander I decided to "dig palace Tsaritsyno" for the sons of the nobility, in order to raise them from the "educated and loyal servants of the state."Autocrat even thought to give it a privileged institution in the great prince.The training program has been carefully thought out, invited the best teachers of the time - for example, A. Kunitsyn and A. Galich.Thus, Pushkin Lyceum student received an excellent all-round education.
Moving to St. Petersburg
Once the parents of 12-year-old boy found out about the upcoming opening of the Lyceum, they sent her son on the road.Pushkin in Moscow to St Petersburg brought his uncle - a poet and writer Vasily Pushkin.
Incidentally, he went to the capital, not only to escort his nephew, but also to transfer to the editor his polemical work.While Sasha was preparing for entrance exams, he lived in his uncle's house.Davidov had on the young poet some influence, in particular, instilled in him an ironic attitude toward members of the canonical Russian literature.Pushkin Lyceum student wrote his first poems in free-style manner, making the impression of free intimate conversations.And his passion for well-aimed epigrams reflect Walter French and other "liberals."
Friendship Pushkin lyceum
Sasha, as an open and sociable boy, he immediately made friends with the other students.He acquired in school a lot of friends.Some of them were also endowed with literary talent.Delvig, Gorchakov, Kiichelbecker, Leo and others began to try the pen, published magazines (until handwritten), created a circle of literature.And Alexander I, Pushkin and the parents made a mistake: about the school were not severe, and of its walls came not loyal servants of the throne and the freedom-loving citizens.Restaurant was not closed: it was possible to go to Tsarskoye Selo.Therefore, Vyazemsky, Zhukovsky, Karamzin, Chaadaev, Rajewski, Kaverin and others also met and became close with young talent.Friends of Pushkin - Lyceum students, writers or just educated officers - had on the work of the poet lasting impact.
six years of study have passed quickly, but have been very fruitful.During this time, Pushkin Lyceum student wrote almost 120 poems and started working on made him famous poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".At age 15, he published his first works - "To a Friend", "Dreamer", "Struck knight.""Memoirs in Tsarskoye Selo" was registered poem written for the arrival of the exam Derzhavina.And epic style ode to the young genius was given easily.
