The bloodstains of the university's two-hundred-year history are clear. To emancipate the peasants, the students and teachers adopted Russian in place of the French language stipulated by the court and called for democracy.
二百年來的校史「血跡斑斑」，師生曾為推翻農奴制度、以民族語言俄文取代官定使用的法文、提倡民主… … 對當權者宣戰，是打破社會各種不公平現象的帶頭者。