Lyceum years of Pushkin: a summary of memories and analysis

What does the school give to each of us? Obviously, this stage does not pass without a trace. And how did the Lyceum years of Pushkin go? A brief summary of the memories of teachers and classmates will help us in analyzing his ardent nature of an extraordinary person who is popular to this day.

Opening Day

So, the boy is 11 years old, Pushkin Alexander, from a not very rich, but still well-known noble family, after passing qualifying examinations, enters the newly opened Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. At the opening there is a royal family and a huge number of high-ranking people. Privileged higher education institution is open for children from noble births. Initially, it was planned that the Grand Dukes would also be trained there, but they decided not to do it. It was the first educational institution where corporal punishment was outlawed . The opening day was magnificent and solemn. It's easy to imagine how exciting the first sensation was and how extraordinary Lyceum years of Pushkin had passed. The brief content of the memories of those years gives us the opportunity to experience that "soil" in which the young genius grew. For the sake of justice, it should be said that Pushkin is not the only graduate of this lyceum who has received worldwide fame.

Professor Kunitsyn A.P.

Despite the fact that the charter of the institution was quite strict, teachers educated children in some freedom, freedom of thought. For example, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology Kunitsyn AP. At his lectures denounced serfdom and did it very enthusiastically. His influence on the young minds was impressive, not only the poems written at that time, but the biography of Pushkin themselves, speak of this .

Lyceum years passed in an alive atmosphere and even can be said to be rebellious. In addition to the fact that the institution was closed (students were not allowed to go for free walks to the city), so the civil war of 1812 introduced a blockade. Closed in the "four walls" ardent teenagers, inspired by patriotic thoughts, eagerly read the news, took pride in victories and argued, discussing those or other actions of the heroes of the war.

Professor Koshanskiy N.F.

Lyceum years of Pushkin (a concise content of poems, or rather their analysis, gives the right to state this) opened in him a real poet. This was facilitated not only by internal strength, but also by the environment, the teachers of the institution. In particular, the teacher of literature Koshanskiy NF. For a long time he saw in him just an arrogant teenager, and Pushkin, in turn, believed he was 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 its own right.

It is difficult to say that there are Lyceum years of Pushkin. The summary of any biographical opus is a very ambiguous thing. Naked facts are not able to describe the sequence of actions, to understand the soul and what influenced the formation of personality.

Professor Galich A.I.

The teacher, who replaced Koshansky, Galich AI, made a literary mentor. The young author devoted enough of his creations. It can be safely stated that the verses read by Pushkin in the exam in January 1815 before Derzhavin and other, no less venerable authors of the time, were written under his influence and brought a lot of fame to the young talent.

Zhukovsky VA

In the autumn of the same year, specially for acquaintance with the young genius, Zhukovsky VA, the defender of the fatherland, the hero of the Civil War, the famous author, and later the teacher of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and Prince Alexander (Alexander II) came to Tsarskoselskoe village. Their acquaintance was something average between the communication of the student / teacher and friendship. Years later (in 1831), Vasily Andreevich will propose a dispute in which Pushkin will be the undoubted winner. It will be offered to write on the recycled Russian fairy tale, after which the famous "Tale of Tsar Saltan" and "The Tale of Tsar Berendey" appeared. At one time, Zhukovsky gave Alexander his portrait with the inscription: "the winner-pupil from the defeated teacher."

The Lyceum

The information that has come down to us about the Lyceum years of Pushkin, left mainly by those who studied nearby, indicates that he was a man of a bright and extraordinary age already in adolescence. The friendship with the classmates, by the way, was strong and long, and from the pen of Alexander Sergeevich came out not one poem devoted to friends-lyceum students.