Word: lomonossov
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...Academy of Sciences was established. The first scientists were Germans, who had no part in advancing Russian literature. The first real litterateur was Prince Cantamile. He wrote the first Russian verses-mainly satires directed against those who opposed the reforms of Peter the Great. The next great writer was Lomonossov. Abandoning the life of a fisherman he fled to Moscow, and later to St. Petersburg, where he obtained his education. He marks the real beginning of Russian poetry. He was in literary life what Peter the Great was in practical life. He expelled the hybrid German words and establised rules...
...XVIII century in Russia. Peter I to Catherine II. The Academy of Science. Lomonossov,- the scientist, the poet. Russian pseudo-classicism,- Loumarokov, Trediakovsky. Accession of Catherine the Great. French philosophy in Russia. Pseudo-classical literature...
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