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Memorial Lyceum Museum | National Pushkin Museum.
Sadovaya ul., 2 | Pushkin
From 1811 to 1817, Pushkin was educated here, here he found devoted friends who remained faithful to the unbreakable lyceum brotherhood until the end of their days, here, “near the waters that shone in the silence,” the young poet began to “see the muse.”
The first graduating class of the Lyceum, later called Pushkin's, turned out to be the most brilliant. The names of many of Pushkin's classmates went down in history. Among them are the diplomat A. M. Gorchakov, the poets A. A. Delvig, V. K. Kuchelbecker, the admiral and historiographer of the Russian fleet F. F. Matyushkin, and the Decembrist I. I. Pushchin.
The museum recreates the environment in which the students of the first graduating class lived and studied. Based on archival materials, the Great Hall, the Newspaper Room, the Library (which contains the original books of the Lyceum library), classrooms, students' bedrooms, and the apartment of the tutor and drawing teacher S. G. Chirikov have been restored.
On June 6, 2024, on the day of the 225th anniversary of the poet's birth, the memorial halls of the second floor of the Lyceum were opened: the overcoat room, the buffet, the dining room, the hospital, the pharmacy, and the Conference hall. Total area — 345 m2.
These rooms were completely lost in the middle of the XIX century after the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum moved to St. Petersburg.
The rooms were recreated for the period 1811-1821. The exact location and purpose of the rooms, the color of the walls, the placement of lighting fixtures, furniture, household items and decorative decoration are based on current historical research and archival sources.
The revival of the memorial halls made the museum's exposition complete, made it possible to reveal and clearly show the daily internal life of the lyceum students.
