person
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
Lomonosov
also: Ломоносов
Eighteenth-century Russian polymath, poet, and grammarian whose formal, elevated Church Slavonic-inflected prose style became a byword for grandiloquence.
Reading notes
- What Is Better? §3 Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), the great Russian polymath and poet; the quoted couplet on the sciences comforting youth and age is one of the most famous lines in his verse, invoked here for mock-solemn effect.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 1 January 1877. Taganrog. §11 Lomonosovian style
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), the polymath poet and grammarian whose formal, elevated Church Slavonic-inflected prose style became a byword for grandiloquence; Chekhov jokingly accuses his own letter of the same bombast.
- The Village Elder §5 Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), the polymath scientist, poet, and founder of Moscow University, celebrated as Russia's archetypal self-made genius who rose from a peasant background; named here alongside Beethoven as an example of towering talent Shelma claims still couldn't match his own knack for peasant business.
- If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either §56 Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov, the eighteenth-century polymath and founder of Russian scientific prose and poetry -- an absurdly weighty inclusion in a schoolgirl's summer reading list.