What gives each of us a school? Obviously, this stage does not pass without a trace. And how did the lyceum years of Pushkin go? A summary of the memoirs of teachers and classmates will help us in analyzing his ardent nature of an extraordinary person who is still popular today.
Opening day
So, a boy of 11 years old, Alexander Pushkin, from a not very rich, but still well-known noble family, having passed the qualifying exams, enters the newly opened Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. At the opening there is a royal family and a huge number of high-ranking persons. A privileged institution of higher education is open to children from noble families. Initially, it was planned that the great princes would also study there, but they decided to abandon it. This was the first educational institution where corporal punishment was outlawed . The opening day was magnificent and solemn. It is easy to imagine how exciting the first sensation was and how extraordinary the lyceum years of Pushkin passed. A brief summary of the memories of those years gives us the opportunity to feel the “soil” in which the young genius grew. In fairness, it is worth saying that Pushkin is not the only graduate of this lyceum who has received world fame.
Professor Kunitsyn A.P.
Despite the fact that the charter of the institution was quite strict, teachers raised children in a certain freedom, freedom of thought. For example, professor of philosophy and psychology Kunitsyn A.P. in his lectures he denounced serfdom and did so very enthusiastically. His influence on young minds was impressive, not only poems written at that time, but Pushkin’s biography itself speak of this .
Lyceum years passed in a vibrant and even rebellious atmosphere. In addition to the fact that the institution was closed (students were not allowed out for free walks in the city), the civil war of 1812 introduced a kind of blockade. Ardent teenagers closed in the “four walls” inspired by patriotic thoughts eagerly read the news, were proud of victories and argued, discussing various actions of war heroes.
Professor Koshansky N.F.
Pushkin’s lyceum (a short summary of poems, more precisely, their analysis, gives the right to say so) discovered the real poet in him. This was facilitated not only by internal strength, but also by the environment and teachers of the institution. In particular, the literature teacher Koshansky N.F. For a long time I saw in him just an arrogant teenager, and Pushkin, in turn, considered him not entitled to teach the secrets of versification and talk about literary taste. The peculiar struggle of the student with the teacher not only did not break the spirit, but also strengthened in his own rightness.
It is difficult to say that there are Pushkin’s lyceum years. The summary of any biographical opus is a very ambiguous thing. Bare facts are not able to describe a series of actions, to understand the soul and what influenced the formation of personality.
Professor Galich A.I.
The literary mentor was a teacher who replaced Koshansky, A. Galich The young author dedicated enough creations to him. It can be safely stated that the poems read by Pushkin at the exam in January 1815 before Derzhavin and other equally venerable authors of that time were written under his influence and brought considerable glory to the young talent.
Zhukovsky V.A.
In the autumn of the same year, especially for acquaintance with a young genius, V.A. Zhukovsky, a defender of the fatherland, a hero of the civil war, a famous author, and later a teacher of the Grand Duchesses Alexandra Fedorovna and Prince Alexander (Alexander II), came to Tsarskoye Selo village. Their acquaintance was a cross between student / teacher communication and friendship. Years later (in 1831), Vasily Andreyevich will propose a dispute in which Pushkin will be the undisputed winner. It will be proposed to write on a revised Russian fairy tale, after which the famous "Tale of Tsar Saltan" and "Tale of Tsar Berendey" were born. At one time, Zhukovsky presented Alexander with his portrait with the inscription: "to the winner-student from the defeated teacher."
Lyceum students
The message that reached us about the lyceum years of Pushkin, left mainly by those who studied nearby, suggests that he was a bright and extraordinary person as a young man . Friendship with classmates, by the way, was strong and long, and more than one poem dedicated to fellow lyceum students came out from Alexander Sergeevich’s pen.