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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH See also:

LOMONOSOV (1711-1765)  , See also:Russian poet and See also:man of See also: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 See also:honour of the poet), situated on an See also:island not far from Kholmogori, in the See also:government of See also:Archangel . His See also:father, a fisherman, took the boy when he was ten years of See also:age to assist him in his calling; but the lad's eagerness for knowledge was unbounded . The few books accessible to him he almost learned by See also:heart; and, seeing that there was no See also:chance of increasing his stock of knowledge in his native See also:place, he resolved to betake himself to See also:Moscow . An opportunity occurred when he was seventeen, and by the intervention of See also:friends he obtained See also:admission into the Zaikonospasski school . There his progress was very rapid, especially in Latin, and in 1734 he was sent from Moscow to St See also:Petersburg . 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 . He accordingly commenced the study of metallurgy at See also:Marburg; he also began to write See also:poetry, imitating See also:German authors, among whom he is said to have especially admired See also:Gunther . His See also:Ode on the Taking of See also: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 . During his See also:residence in See also:Germany Lomon6sov married a native of the See also:country, and found it difficult to maintain his increasing See also:family on the scanty See also:allowance granted to him by the St Petersburg See also:Academy, which, moreover, was irregularly sent . His circumstances became embarrassed, and he resolved to leave the country secretly and to return See also:home . On his arrival in See also:Russia he rapidly See also:rose to distinction, and was made See also:professor of See also:chemistry in the university of St Petersburg; he ultimately became'See also:rector, and in 1764 secretary of See also:state . He died in 1765 .

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 . He everywhere shows himself a man of the most varied learning . He compiled a Russian See also:grammar, which See also:long enjoyed popularity, and did much to improve the See also:rhythm of Russian See also:verse .

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