Mgnovenie pushkin biography

In Moscow, on May 26, 1799, Alexander S. Pushkin is born as the second son of Sergei Lvovich Pushkin, retired officer, man of letters and amateur poet, and Natalia Ossipovna Hannibal, granddaughter of the «negro of Peter the Great», Abyssinian hostage bought for the Tsar in Constantinople and became General-in-Chief Abraham P.

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Raised by preceptors, imbued with French culture thanks to his father’s rich library, he was soon noticed for his poetic gifts among the writers his parents frequented.
Solemn inauguration of the Tsarskoye Silo High School created by Alexander I, on October 19, 1811 on the model of the Napoleonic high schools, intended to give a thorough general training (where the teaching of French and German occupies an important place) to an elite of future servants of the state, called to perform the highest functions.

Richly endowed, with a high-quality teaching staff, the Lyceum is housed in an annex building of the Imperial Palace of Tsarskoye Sielo, whose