Lomonosov

Unfailingly striving for the modernization of his country, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov had a significant impact on various fields of science and culture: the formation of the literary language and classical versification, chemistry, optics, oceanography, the study of atmospheric electricity, history, astronomy, and more. It is not surprising that he was an extremely versatile and extraordinary personality, both in good and bad ways. Drawing on a wide range of sources, literary historian Valery Shubinsky meticulously recreates both Lomonosov the innovator's path and the portrait of Lomonosov the man.