This study explores 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
intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning
and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian
national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol.
Idealized depictions of Lomonosov were employed by Russian
scientists, historians, and poets, among others, in efforts to
affirm to their countrymen and to the state the pragmatic
advantages of science to a modernizing nation. In setting forth
this assumption, Usitalo notes that no sharply drawn division can
be upheld between the utilization of the myth of Lomonosov during
the Soviet period of Russian history and that which characterized
earlier views. The main elements that formed the mythology were
laid down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Soviet
scholars simply added more exaggerated layers to existing
representations.
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