Tenishev’s School by Osip Mandelstam. Short summary

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The Tenishev School was located in a large, lucrative house on Zagorodnoye Street. All students wore unusual English-style uniforms. One day Witte came here for a celebration.

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The Tenishev School was in a big rented house on Zagorodnoye Street. In the courtyard the pupils played soccer. Their clothes were made in a certain Cambridge style, and gave the impression that the children were taken to England or Switzerland and changed clothes there.

One day Witte came to one of the festivities. There were rumors about Witte that he had a golden nose. The boys believed it and constantly looked at his nose.

At the beginning of September there were festivals in honor of the honey and happiness of the model school. At the assemblies, the elderly Dr. Virenius gave his annual speech. He reported on the benefits of swimming, but this information was not particularly pertinent since it was autumn outside.

Another professor, Prince Tarkhanoff, taught physiology classes, in which he made the students listen to their heartbeats through a thick velvet vest. Tenishev’s auditorium was filmed by the Literary Foundation. It worked according to a fixed annual plan, according to which the birthdays and deathdays of writers were celebrated.