Mikhail Lomonosov. St Petersburg University

Mikhail Lomonosov spent his childhood and early years outside St Petersburg. After travelling halfway across the country, he ended up in Moscow, where he studied at the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. In recognition of his hard work, he was awarded a scholarship to study in Germany. 

When he arrived in St Petersburg after nearly five years of study at the University of Marburg, Lomonosov was already a highly educated, versatile specialist. He returned a man who had already enriched academia with his most valuable contribution — the reform of Russian poetic verse. Even if Lomonosov had achieved nothing else, his name would still be revered in our country as «the father of Russian poetry» and "Peter the Great of Russian literature", as Vissarion Belinsky once wrote about him. 

Upon his return, Lomonosov joined the staff of the Academy and was given a two-room apartment in the Academy’s Bohn House. His entire scientific and social life took place in the city on the Neva River. He was buried in 1765 in the Lazarevskoe cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St Petersburg. 

Count Mikhail Vorontsov, a long-time admirer of the scientist, erected a grand white marble monument over Lomonosov’s ashes, engraved with symbols representing all of Lomonosov’s achievements and fields of expertise. 

"To the memory of the great man, Mikhail Lomonosov, born in Kolmogory in 1711, former State Counsellor, Professor of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, member of the Stockholm and Bologna Academies, excellent in reason and science, who served the Fatherland with noble distinction". 

The lecture will be held as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the oldest university in Russia. The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.

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