M. V. Lomonosov v knizhnoi kul'ture Rossii (M. V. Lomonosov and Russian book culture)
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. sewn pb. The Russian State Library in Moscow celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of the scientist, inventor, and poet by organizing an exhibition showing the role of books in Lomonosov's life — he formed his first library as a student at the University of Marburg — and the part Lomonosov played in spreading book culture in Russia. If in eighteenth-century America Franklin, from a simple background, the son of a chandler, advanced knowledge and the public good, inventing a model for public libraries and performing scientific experiments that attracted the attention of European academies, and in England Johnson, the son of an "impecunious bookseller", imposed order on a gangly language with the first authoritative dictionary, then an analogous figure, perhaps even more amazing by the contrast between his lowly origin and his lofty achievements, arose in Russia: son of peasants Mikhail Lomonosov wrote the first Russian grammar and some of the first enduring works of literature and developed technologies in practical and artistic fields, including metallurgy and mosaics. The first part of this catalogue of the Russian State Library publishes portraits of Lomonosov and his contemporaries, the places they frequented; the second lists and illustrates books written by Lomonosov and books written about him. 144 p., approx. 300 color and b/w illus., Rus. with summary in ENGLISH. Item #826
ISBN: 9785751004903
Price: $49.00