LEADER 04140oam 22008293u 450 001 996328043303316 005 20240424225731.0 010 $a1-61811-672-X 010 $a1-61811-195-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618116727 035 $a(CKB)2670000000422029 035 $a(EBL)3110519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001189625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11702695 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11175799 035 $a(PQKB)10223794 035 $a(DE-B1597)540931 035 $a(OCoLC)1135591500 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618116727 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110519 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10761667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526676 035 $a(OCoLC)922977867 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1b7d1432-58f1-4311-96ef-0c145be9c8e5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110519 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38062 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000422029 100 $a20131008d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe invention of Mikhail Lomonosov $ea Russian national myth /$fSteven A. Usitalo 210 $aBoston, MA$cAcademic Studies Press$d2013 210 1$aBrighton, Massachusetts :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aImperial encounters in Russian history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-61811-173-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Honor and Status in Lomonosov's "Autobiography" --$tChapter 2. Russia's "Own Platos and Quick-Witted Newtons": Inventing the Scientist --$tChapter 3. Lomonosov in the Age of Pushkin --$tChapter 4. Commemorating Russia's "First Scientist" --$tChapter 5. Boris Menshutkin and the "Rediscovery" of Lomonosov --$tEpilogue. Afterlife of the Myth --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis study explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol. Idealized depictions of Lomonosov were employed by Russian scientists, historians, and poets, among others, in efforts to affirm to their countrymen and to the state the pragmatic advantages of science to a modernizing nation. In setting forth this assumption, Usitalo notes that no sharply drawn division can be upheld between the utilization of the myth of Lomonosov during the Soviet period of Russian history and that which characterized earlier views. The main elements that formed the mythology were laid down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Soviet scholars simply added more exaggerated layers to existing representations. 410 0$aImperial Encounters in Russian History 606 $aAuthors, Russian$y18th century$vBiography 606 $aEnlightenment$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xCivilization$y18th century 610 $aHistory 610 $aAlexander Pushkin 610 $aAlexander Radishchev 610 $aIsaac Newton 610 $aLeonhard Euler 610 $aMikhail Lomonosov 610 $aRussia 610 $aRussian Academy of Sciences 610 $aRussians 610 $aSaint Petersburg 615 0$aAuthors, Russian 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a509.2 700 $aUsitalo$b Steven$0924996 702 $aMarker$b Gary$f1948- 712 02$aNational Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996328043303316 996 $aThe invention of Mikhail Lomonosov$92076108 997 $aUNISA