we entrusted it to vice admiral daribas, given in tsarskoye selo on the twenty-seventh day of may 1794 . thus, we see with you the first document about the founding of odessa. during the reign of emperor alexander ii , french emigrants who fled the revolution made a huge contribution to the development and improvement of odessa. educational institutions, the odessa public library created by varontsov, to which he donated his own collection of books, became the second most established in russia after petersburg the name of alexander sergeevich pushkin occupies a special place in the history of odessa. the great russian poet lived in south palmyra for 13 months, starting in july 1823. here he wrote two and a half chapters of the novel eugene onegin. the poem gypsies, the bahcesarai fountain was completed, dozens of poems were created. at that time, most of the paved sidewalks in odessa were not yet covered. pushkin’s day in odessa began with sea swimming, strong oriental coffee, fresh newspapers, which were then allowed into the city uncensored. the poet dined at caesar otho's restaurant