Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was such a talented and versatile person that he is considered the founder of their science by Russian chemists, physicists, metallurgists, astronomers, geologists, and geographers. In addition to the exact sciences, the list of his interests included the humanities. Lomonosov's discoveries in mineralogy, astronomy, chemistry were reflected in his own poetic works.
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Step 1
From childhood, young Mikhail eagerly absorbed knowledge, which was not so easy. His mother died when the boy was very little years old, and his stepmother, being an ignorant and unpleasant person, tried in every possible way to turn the child away from learning. The boy read furtively, but this did not prevent him from studying the best textbooks of Smotritsky and Magnitsky for that period.
Step 2
It is difficult to imagine the vegetation of such an inquiring mind in a fishing village, and Mikhail secretly ran away from home to get an education. He managed to cheat, inventing himself a noble origin. First, the young man studied at the Zaikonospassky School, then at the St. Petersburg University at the Academy of Science. Later he was sent to study in Germany. Lomonosov took with him a treatise on the poetry of Vasily Trediakovsky. This can be considered the beginning of Lomonosov's interest in versification. Although even while studying in Moscow, Mikhail Vasilyevich practiced writing reports on given topics in poetic form. This skill was considered to be very useful for any educated person.
Step 3
Before Lomonosov, versification consisted in the ability to choose a rhyme at the end of a line and to provide an equal number of syllables in the lines, most often eleven or thirteen. The adjacent rhyme was especially popular (the first line rhymes with the second, and the third with the fourth). For Russian people, such versification was inconvenient due to the fact that the stress in words in our language can be on any syllable, unlike other European languages. Poetic forms came out of the pen of poets ponderous and pompous.
Step 4
Lomonosov, being well acquainted with the oral poetry of the Russian people, could not help but notice how it favorably differs from the work of the court poets, who wrote the Church Slavonic language divorced from living Russian speech. Lomonosov set out to bring the literary language closer to the language of the people. If earlier poetic works were written most often in chorea, sometimes in iambic, then Lomonosov mixed poetic dimensions, applying female and male rhymes and alternating them in the most bizarre sequence.
Step 5
Lomonosov divided literary genres into styles or "calm". For example, it was impossible to compose songs and epigrams in a pompous style, and colloquial words should not be used when composing odes for important persons. Lomonosov himself skillfully combined the talent of a courtier poet, whose odes dedicated to the empresses are saturated with colorful and sonorous hyperboles and metaphors, and a poet who skillfully describes reality with its terrible and funny sides. Mikhail Vasilyevich's odes were very popular, the Empress gladly quoted some lines from them. And for one of them, Lomonosov received a lump sum as much as his salary at the Academy of Sciences for 3 years.
Step 6
In the solemn odes of Lomonosov, the monarch, in this case, the empress, appears as a noble and wise ruler, under whose leadership the Russian land flourishes. In spiritual odes, he considers the human personality as a part of the universe. But modern man is closer and more interesting of all to his everyday sketches, poems dedicated to individual personalities and odes related to his various scientific interests.
