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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.
Authors, Russian --- Enlightenment --- Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, --- Ломоносов, Михаил Васильевич, --- Lomonossov, Michail V., --- Lomonossow, Michail Wassiljewitsch, --- Lomonosovas, Michailas Vasiljevičius, --- Ломоносов, М. В. --- Lomonosov, M. V. --- Lomonosov, Mikhaĭlo, --- Lomonosow, Michaelis, --- Łomonosow, Michaił Wasilewicz, --- Łomonosow, Michał, --- Russia --- Civilization --- Soviet Union --- History --- Alexander Pushkin --- Alexander Radishchev --- Isaac Newton --- Leonhard Euler --- Mikhail Lomonosov --- Russian Academy of Sciences --- Russians --- Saint Petersburg
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Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their favorite texts, a centuries-long and continent spanning “love story” that shaped the way people think, feel, and communicate. The fruit of thirty-one specialists’ research, Reading Russia represents the first attempt to systematically depict the evolution of reading in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present day. The first volume of Reading Russia describes the slow evolution of reading between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. During the reign of Peter the Great, the changes initially concerned a limited number of readers from court circles, the ecclesiastical world, the higher aristocracy and the Academy of Sciences, that considered reading as a potent way of regulating the conduct of the people. It was only under the modernisation programme inaugurated by Catherine the Great that transformations began to gain pace: the birth of private publishers and the widening currency of translations soon led to the formation of an initial limited public of readers from the nobility, characterised by an increasing responsiveness to European models and by its gradual emancipation from the cultural practices typical of the ecclesiastical world and of the court.
History --- Literature --- Literature Slavic --- Cultura russa --- i russi ei loro testi preferiti --- evoluzione della lettura in Russia --- Pietro il Grande --- Caterina la Grande --- Russian culture --- Russians and their favorite texts --- evolution of reading in Russia --- Peter the Great --- Catherine the Great
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