TY  - BOOK
AU  - Usitalo,Steven
TI  - The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth 
SN  - 9781618116727
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - For more than two hundred years, the eighteenth-century polymath Mikhail Vasilevich 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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1b7d1432-58f1-4311-96ef-0c145be9c8e5
ER  -