Kazaners and guests of the capital of Tatarstan are invited to the "Kvartirnik at the Brenings"

The regular  creative meeting, which is traditionally held on Thursday, will be dedicated to the Day of  Lyceum.

My friends, our union is beautiful!

It, as a soul, is inseparable and eternal -

It  is unshakable, free and careless,

It  was crouched under the shadow of amicable muses.

Wherever Destiny Threw Us

And happiness wherever  led,

We are still the same: the whole world is alien to us;

Fatherland is Tsarskoe Selo.

A.S. Pushkin

October 19, 1811, the Imperial Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum was opened - a privileged higher educational institution for the children of the nobility in the Russian Empire. Despite the fact that many famous Russians passed through the Lyceum, his first release was the most famous for ever: poets Pushkin, Delvig and Kyukhelbecker, seaman Matyushkin, chancellor Gorchakov, Decembrist Pushchin, director of the Imperial Public Library Korf, etc. The date of the opening of the lyceum subsequently began to be celebrated by graduates as Lyceum Day. For the celebration, former students gathered for the so-called "lyceum lunch".

On October 19, 2017, the Breningovs will gather students from the Kazan State Architectural and Construction University, who are fond of poetry. Their poetic club is called "Keyhole". They called their "exit session" "Green lamp".

The "Green Lamp" is a friendly society of the St. Petersburg noble, mostly military, youth in 1819-1820, whose members included the Decembrists, as well as A.S. Pushkin and A.A. Delvig. The name society received because  of a green lampshade on a lamp in the meeting room and symbolized "light and hope." The meetings were held in the apartment of the playwright and translator N.V. Vsevolozhsky.

With the same name in Paris in 1927 - 1940, there was a literary society founded on the initiative of the poets D.S. Merezhkovsky and Z.P. Gippius. Meetings of the Paris "Green Lamp" were held on Sundays in the  Merezhkovskys apartment.

"On the Kvartirnik at the Brenings" students will present their poetic experiences, and a necessary condition for participation is reading poetry by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and other graduates of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Those who came "on a visit" to Breningam will have the opportunity to participate in the evening - to read poems from the "free microphone."

Entrance to this event is free.

Address: Kazan, st. Karl Marx, 62.