text:  The Lyceum must be undoubtedly considered as having nursed in its bosom a greater number of distinguished men than any other educational institution in the country; and our readers may judge of the peculiar privileges enjoyed by this establishment (the primary object of whose foundation was that of furnishing to the higher civil departments in the government and to the ministry of foreign affairs in particular a supply of able and accomplished _employes_ ) from the fact of its having been located by the emperor in a wing of the palace of Tsarskoe Selo--the favourite summer residence of the Tsars of Russia since the time of Catharine II