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MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH LOMONOSOV (1711-1765) , See also: Russian poet and See also: man of science, was See also: born in the See also: year 1711, in the See also: village of Denisovka (the name of which was afterwards changed in honour of the poet), situated on an See also: island not far from Kholmogori, in the See also: government of Archangel
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His See also: father, a fisherman, took the boy when he was ten years of age to assist him in his calling; but the lad's eagerness for knowledge was unbounded
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The few books accessible to him he almost learned by See also: heart; and, seeing that there was no chance of increasing his stock of knowledge in his native place, he resolved to betake himself to Moscow
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An opportunity occurred when he was seventeen, and by the intervention of See also: friends he obtained See also: admission into the Zaikonospasski school
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There his progress was very rapid, especially in Latin, and in 1734 he was sent from Moscow to St See also: Petersburg
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There again his proficiency, especially in See also: physical science, was marked, and he was one of the See also: young Russians chosen to See also: complete their See also: education in See also: foreign countries
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He accordingly commenced the study of metallurgy at Marburg; he also began to write See also: poetry, imitating See also: German authors, among whom he is said to have especially admired Gunther
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His Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the See also: Turks was composed in 1739, and attracted a See also: great See also: deal of See also: attention at St Petersburg
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During his residence in See also: Germany Lomon6sov married a native of the country, and found it difficult to maintain his increasing See also: family on the scanty allowance granted to him by the St Petersburg See also: Academy, which, moreover, was irregularly sent
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His circumstances became embarrassed, and he resolved to leave the country secretly and to return home
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On his arrival in See also: Russia he rapidly See also: rose to distinction, and was made professor of chemistry in the university of St Petersburg; he ultimately became'rector, and in 1764 secretary of See also: state
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He died in 1765
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The most valuable of the See also: works of Lomon6sov are those See also: relating to physical science, and he wrote upon many branches of it
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He everywhere shows himself a man of the most varied learning
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He compiled a Russian grammar, which long enjoyed popularity, and did much to improve the rhythm of Russian verse
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