Biography Lomonosov Creativity

Creative activity at the origins of new Russian fiction rises gigantic in its scientific, cultural and social activity the figure of Lomonosov. He was truly the father of new Russian science and culture. Mechanics, physics, chemistry, metallurgy, astronomy, geography, linguistics, poetry - these are the main industries in which he worked.

And everywhere he said his word, made many discoveries. Lomonosov was a brilliant person who loves his country warmly. It embodied the best features characteristic of the Russian people: extraordinary energy and performance, iron willpower, versatile creative giftedness, selfless service to the people. The activities of Lomonosov in the field of culture were versatile. The most remarkable was the combination of a scientist, a public figure and poet.

Lomonosov’s scientific works in the field of language and theory of poetry are very important. These works Lomonosov made a significant reform in the field of the Russian literary language and approved the system of versification, which became the main in the 18th and 19th centuries and has survived to this day. Lomonosov saw that the Russian language in his time was very clogged with both foreign words and outdated, dilapidated church -Slavic words and expressions.

He set his task to clear the Russian language, reveal its wealth, develop a literary language on a folk basis. In this work, Lomonosov went along the path of combining the valuable that he found in the Slavic and Russian folk language. He sets out his doctrine of the “three chlorians” in his reasoning “On the benefits of church books in the Russian language” was of great importance for strengthening the national Russian language by the struggle of Lomonosov with the clogging of the Russian language “foreign language”.

The ingenious scientist and beautiful expert on many languages, he managed to find Russian words to express scientific concepts and laid the foundation of the Russian technical and scientific dictionary. Many of the scientific expressions left by him have firmly entered into use and are used to date. The great merit of Lomonosov before Russian literature is the reform of the Russian versification that he spent after Trediakovsky.

In the year, Lomonosov, who then studied in Germany, wrote a “letter about the rules of Russian poetry”, in which he proved that the Russian language makes it possible to write not only with chorea and iamba, but also with anapest, and a combination of iambes with anapests, and choreevs with dactiles, that male, female, and dactylic and alternate them can be used. Lomonosov was not only a great scientist, but also the best poet of his time.

The patriot citizen Lomonosov appreciated the art that serves the benefits of society, the people. He fought for the content and ideology of literature. Lomonosov himself in his poetic activity brilliantly carried out the requirements that he presented to literature and the poet. Lomonosov began to write poetry early. But his poetic work developed and blossomed after returning from a foreign business trip.

He wrote works of various genres: odes, tragedies, lyrical and satirical poems, fables, epigrams. His beloved genre was Oda. In his odes, Lomonosov glorifies the victories of Russians over enemies or celebrates various solemn dates. The homeland, its immense expanses, its inexhaustible natural wealth, its strength and power, its future greatness and glory are the main theme of Odinosov.

Lomonosov praises the talent of the great Russian people, the mighty spirit of its troops, the Russian fleet. He expresses firm confidence that the Russian land is able to give birth to its own great scientists, its “Russian Columbus”, great cultural figures. Lomonosov also wrote odes dedicated to religious and scientific topics. These are, for example, his two “thoughts”: “The morning reflection on the God of Majesty” and “The evening reflection on the God of Majesty on occasion of the great northern lights”.

These “thoughts” are examples of scientific poetry. In them, like no one after him, up to the present day, managed to give a combination of science and poetry in a single whole. The Odes of Lomonosov by sonority and musicality of the verse, in terms of lightness and understandability of the language, were exceptional phenomenon for their time. For the first time in Russian book poetry, such truly artistic works appeared in which the unity of form and content was achieved.

Lomonosov’s poetry, deeply ideological, patriotic, civilian, significantly contributed to the rapid and successful development of Russian literature. And as a scientist and as a poet Lomonosov, he gave all his knowledge and strength to serving the people and his homeland. His whole life was full of unstable creative searches and the heroic struggle with enemies, in every possible way preventing his transformative activity in the field of education.

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