Mikhail Lomonosov, a peasant boy from the Russian North, became the first Russian scientist not without the involvement of a close relationship with a great man - the Russian emperor Peter the Great.
The name of Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov, a famous Russian academician, scientist and poet, is familiar to everyone in Russia from school. But most of us do not think about how a simple peasant guy from the Russian North reached great heights in the scientific community, received the title of a nobleman and was “on a short foot” with representatives of the Romanov imperial family.
And this fact can be explained very simply: Lomonosov was the son of Peter I. The relationship of the first Russian emperor with a brilliant scientist is not confirmed by any documents, except for one old letter, the existence of which was reported to us by Vasily Korelsky in his article published in the newspaper Pravda Severa.
It was the ancestor of Vasily Korelsky, Semyon Korelsky, who took Mikhail to Moscow, obeying the command of Peter, who had already died by then.
And the path to the learned Olympus was opened to the church lord Feofan Prokopovich Lomonosov, also fulfilling the will of the deceased tsar.
But the most important thing in this story is that Mikhail Vasilievich walked along the scientific path himself, reaching the heights of Olympus with his own mind and not knowing until the end of his life about his origin.
