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245 1 0 _aThe Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : A Russian National Myth
260 _aBoston, MA
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520 _aFor 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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653 _aHistory
653 _aHistory
653 _aAlexander Pushkin
653 _aAlexander Radishchev
653 _aIsaac Newton
653 _aLeonhard Euler
653 _aMikhail Lomonosov
653 _aRussia
653 _aRussian Academy of Sciences
653 _aRussians
653 _aSaint Petersburg
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