In addition to all this Lomonosov was a prominent Russian artist for he is known to have made a great contribution to the development of Russian pictorial art.

Lomonosov's life was full of difficulties and obstacles which he had to overcome. The son of a peasant he was born in 1711 in the northern coastal village of Denisovka not far from Archangel. His father wanted Michail to become a fisherman and when he was ten years old, he began to him to sea fishing. The dangerous life of fisherman taught Lomonosov to observe the phenomena of nature.

By the end of his life Lomonosov had been elected honorary member of a number of foreign academies. Lomonosov died at the age of 54, on April 1765. He is widely known and greatly honored in our country Moscow University bears his name and a number of monuments in his honour have been erected all over our country.