Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born in 1711 the son of prosperous peasant parents near Kholmogory, Russia. His father was a fisherman. Lomonosov seems to have been a voracious reader at an early age, and gradually he came to outgrow the small village of his birth. In 1730, he went to Moscow on foot, pretending to be the son of a priest, to enroll in the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy of the Zaikonospassky monastery, where he studied Greek and Latin. From there, he continued to study at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1736, but he soon secured a newly...
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