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Richelieu Lyceum
The
Richelieu
Lyceum
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
.
It
existed
from 1817 to 1865, when it became the
basis
of
Odessa University
.
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
.
The Lyceum graduates are
Spiridon Palauzov
;
Nikolay Palauzov
;
Nayden Gerov
;
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.
