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oapen-20.500.12657-308972021-04-30T10:39:04Z The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov Usitalo, Steven History History Alexander Pushkin Alexander Radishchev Isaac Newton Leonhard Euler Mikhail Lomonosov Russia Russian Academy of Sciences Russians Saint Petersburg For more than two hundred years, the eighteenth-century polymath Mikhail Vasil’evich Lomonosov (1711–1765) has been glorified in Russian culture as the “father” of Russian science, literature, and, more generally, learning. This study traces the evolution of Lomonosov’s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the attitudes toward the meaning and significance of science in Russian culture, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol. Steven Usitalo argues that Lomonosov’s fame has surpassed any realistic association with the known details of his life; he is of interest primarily as a symbolic figure who fulfilled the tangible intellectual and emotional requirements that Russian pride demanded in a national myth. 2018-01-06 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-27 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:17:15Z 2020-04-01T13:17:15Z 2013-08-01 book 641444 OCN: 861693428 9781618116727 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30897 eng Imperial Encounters in Russian History application/pdf n/a 641444.pdf https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/the-invention-of-mikhail-lomonosov-a-russian-national-myth Academic Studies Press 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj87 101798 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj87 ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781618116727 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Boston, MA 101798 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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For more than two hundred years, the eighteenth-century polymath Mikhail Vasil’evich Lomonosov (1711–1765) has been glorified in Russian culture as the “father” of Russian science, literature, and, more generally, learning. This study traces the evolution of Lomonosov’s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the attitudes toward the meaning and significance of science in Russian culture, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol. Steven Usitalo argues that Lomonosov’s fame has surpassed any realistic association with the known details of his life; he is of interest primarily as a symbolic figure who fulfilled the tangible intellectual and emotional requirements that Russian pride demanded in a national myth.
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