Memorial Lyceum Museum

In 1949, on the 150th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin, the Memorial Museum-lyceum was opened in the building of the former Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, one of the privileged educational institutions of Russia in the first quarter of the XIX century. From 1811 to 1817, Pushkin was brought up here. In the Lyceum he found devoted friends who remained faithful to the indestructible Lyceum brotherhood until the end of their days; here, “near the waters shining in silence,” the young poet began to “appear to be the muse.”

The museum recreates the environment in which the first lyceum students lived and studied. On the basis of archival materials, the Great Hall, the Newspaper Room, the library (it contains authentic books of the lyceum library), classrooms, bedrooms of pupils, as well as the apartment of the governor and drawing teacher S. G. Chirikov, who gave Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum more than 40 years of life, were restored. On the second floor of the building there is a permanent exposition “We live in memory of the Lyceum”, which represents the 200-year history of this wonderful educational institution and tells about the fates of outstanding graduates of the Lyceum of different years.