TY  - GEN
AU  - Usitalo,Steven
TI  - The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : A Russian National Myth
SN  - j.ctt1zxsj87
PY  - 2013///0801
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - History
KW  - Alexander Pushkin
KW  - Alexander Radishchev
KW  - Isaac Newton
KW  - Leonhard Euler
KW  - Mikhail Lomonosov
KW  - Russia
KW  - Russian Academy of Sciences
KW  - Russians
KW  - Saint Petersburg
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30897/1/641444.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30897/1/641444.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38062
ER  -