M.V. Lomonosov in the eyes of contemporaries and descendants

Abstract

The attempt is made in the article to trace the evolution of the attitude to this personality through to the present time on the bases of his contemporaries opinions, expressed about Lomonosov immediately before and after his death. The narration is based on the well founded facts, pursuing the aim to present the genuine succession of events in order to show, why Lomonosov became Great in the eyes of the Russian people and to prove, that this greatness is ineradicable, it has passed through centuries, in centuries it will go.