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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Mikhail Lomonossov (1711–1765)

Lomonossov, Mikhail Vasilyévich (lé-mō-nos’ov). A Russian poet and man of science: born at Dennisowka, Archangel, 1711; died at St. Petersburg, April 15, 1765. He is “father of Russian grammar and literature.” He was the first to write polished lyric verse in Russian: his models were the classic poets of France. Among his odes is the celebrated one “On the Taking of Chotin.” He wrote also songs, didactic poems, and poetical epistles. He failed in tragedy. His principal scientific works are: ‘Atmospheric Phenomena Produced by Electricity’; ‘Elements of Metallurgy’; ‘Causes of Heat and Cold’; etc. Of very great importance are his philological writings; among them are ‘On the Utility of Church Slavic for Study of the Russian Language’; ‘Russian Grammar,’ the publication of which marked an epoch.