A story of the early life of the noted Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin (V. Lotovsky). He is attending the famed Lyceum school at Tsarskoye Selo during the Czarist regime. His life is traced to where he meets Derzhaven (A. Ngebrov), the reigning Russian poet of the era, and Derzhaven dies happy believing that Pushkin will carry Russian poetry to a new high.