Richelieu Lyceum
The Richelieu Lyceum (Russian: Ришельевский лицей) in Odessa, the Russian Empire, was created on the initiative of the mayor of the city and the governor of New Russia, the Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.[1]
It existed from 1817 to 1865, when it became the basis of Odessa University.[2]
The Lyceum prepares personnel for the Balkans under a previous Greek Project and reflects Russia's conservative view of establishing a "new order" in the Balkans after the Vienna Congress (see Eastern question).
The Lyceum graduates are Spiridon Palauzov (who introduced the concept of the Golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture); Nikolay Palauzov (first trustee and co-sponsor of Aprilov National High School); Nayden Gerov (initiator of the first celebration of the Day Of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture); Constantine Paparrigopoulos - the father of modern Greek historiography.
During the academic year 1855/1856, i. at the end of the Crimean War, Dimitri Mendeleev taught in the Lyceum.[3]