A peasant boy from the Russian North, Mikhail Lomonosov, became the first Russian scientist, not without the participation of a close relationship with a great man - the Russian Emperor Peter the Great.
The name of Mikhail Vasilyevich 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 academic environment, received the title of nobleman and was "on a short leg" 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 the 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, fulfilling the command of Peter, who had already died by that time.
And the way to the scientist Olympus was opened for Lomonosov by the church lord Feofan Prokopovich, who also fulfilled the will of the deceased king.
But the most important thing in this story is that Mikhail Vasilyevich walked along the learned path himself, reaching the peaks of Olympus with his mind and not knowing until the end of his life about his origin.
