M. V. Lomonosov

the father of Russian science, an outstanding poet, founder of

November 1711 in a fisherman’s family near Kholmogory in the

Mikhail learned to read and write through church books. When

to Moscow where he entered the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

Kholmogory

Moscow

in a short period of time. He completed a twelve-year

he was sent abroad at the University of Marburg

university, officially named after Lomonosov, is at the apex of

great man…. He founded the first Russian university: or to

of science: physics, chemistry, astronomy. The last period of Lomonosov’s

the most significant pages of Russian literature in the

wrote of Lomonosov, «Our literature begins with Lomonosov; he was

Lomonosov was elected honorary member of the Stocholm and Bologna

on the 15 th of April 1765 at age 54.

country. The Russian Academy of Sciences awards Lomonosov honorary medals

1736; 1755; 1764; 1765.