I n the Lyceum Garden stands a famous seated Statue of Alexander Pushkin made by the design of sculptor Robert Bach in 1900. Pushkin is shown as a youth, wearing the uniform of the Lyceum student. The future poet daydreams sitting on an iron bench in a tranquil corner of the park.
   A verse inscribed on the pedestal of the monument reads:
      «Those springtime days in secret valleys,
      Where swans call out and beauty dallies,
      Near waters sparkling in the hill,
      The Muse first came to make me thrill.»
(Pushkin "Eugene Onegin", Translated from the Russian by James E. Falen)