the first director of the lyceum was vasily fedovich malinovsky.gure in russian education, the author of a famous work in the stupid era, and even a somewhat sensational one in the stupid era, of the treatise on eternal peace. and everything was already ready for the very day when the lyceum was supposed to open. true, before. it was still necessary to determine the composition of the students, so at the beginning of january 1811 , an announcement appeared in moscow and st. petersburg newspapers: about the creation of a new educational institution for representatives of the young russian nobility and young men aged 11-12 years old who would like to study at face, it turns out that the minister of public education, who was involved in all the details of the creation of the lyceum, organized these tests directly at home, in that at one time, count alexei kirillovich razumovsky had a beautiful palace and park ensemble on the banks of the fontanka, it is literally opposite the current building of the large drama theater from the fontanka to the country