Mikhail Lomonosov through the eyes of contemporaries. Documents, letters, notes, articles, epitaphs, and eulogies, inscriptions

This publication presents the most significant memories and testimonies of contemporaries of M. V. Lomonosov about his life and activities, as well as a complete set compiled in the XVIII century descriptions of the place of his birth. Translations of documents written in foreign languages, this in new versions. The chronological scope is limited to published documents of the XVIII century - they retain the value of the "starting points", from which begin any research biographies of Lomonosov and the search for new documents on it.