text:  This institution then recently established by the Emperor Alexander and always honoured by the peculiar favour and protection of its illustrious founder was modelled on the plan of those _lycees_ which France owed to the genius of Napoleon; and was intended to confer upon its pupils the advantage of a complete encyclopedic education and not only embracing the preparatory or school course but also the academic _curriculum_ of a university was calculated to dismiss the students at the end of their course of training immediately into active life