Lomonosov's secret scrolls

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Many papers that day disappeared forever from the archives of the scientist. And where they are now is still unknown. And yet, Count Orlov could not find the most important document, because of which, in fact, the whole search was started.

Where does the Pomor come from?

Lomonosov's biography is well known, although there are still many blank spots in it. Relatively recently, the exact place of his birth was established - the village of Mishaninskaya (now the village of Lomonosovo), near Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk province. His birthday is dated to "Mikhailov Day" November 20, 1711 (November 8, old style).

It is believed that Lomonosov was the son of a Pomor peasant Vasily Dorofeev. But under what circumstances he acquired a passion for science and the name Lomonosov is unknown. Rumor has it that the son of a fisherman was almost a child … an alien, or at least a side offspring of some noble rank. Some sources even indicate that the real father of the boy could be Peter I himself!

How true are these versions? The hypothesis that Mikhailo could, like Jesus of Nazareth, turn out to be the son of an earthly woman and a heavenly alien, in essence, is based only on the fact that, they say, from where in the family of illiterate Pomors a son could appear with a mind so outstanding that he later did not accidentally called "the first Russian university"? However, in fact, such cases have happened in history more than once. The parents of neither Newton, nor Faraday, nor Einstein, nor Feynman, nor Landau, nor Sakharov, nor many other pillars of science, did not shine with special talents. And, nevertheless, no one records them as "sons of aliens"?..

As for the royal origin of Mikhail Lomonosov, there are more textures.

For example, how was the son of a commoner able to enter the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy at all, where only the sons of noblemen and clergy were admitted? But it is with training in this academy that a stunning career begins as a member of the Russian and Swedish Academies of Sciences, awarded, among other things, a title of nobility?

Wasn't someone's “shaggy paw”, as it is now customary to say, contributed to the rapid advancement of the Pomor's son? Probably, in connection with this, a version appeared that it was not at all a simple man who was the father of a genius, but the Russian Emperor Peter the First himself.

Lomonosov's contemporaries talked about this, who were perplexed by many things in his life. Could this be? Why not? - believes the historian Margarita Solovyova. - Pyotr Alekseevich often came to the North and worked, by the way, as a simple carpenter at the Bazhenov shipyard, which was located in the immediate vicinity of Kurostrov, where the boy Mikhailo was born”…

True, other historians point out that nine months before the birth of Mikhaila, Peter was far from the northern borders of the Russian Empire, so physically it would be difficult for him to contribute to the birth of a son, even if we assume that the baby's mother, nee Elena Sivkova, having forgotten about the conjugal duty, fell under the charm of a loving king.

But there are other facts that, again, are alarming. Vasily Dorofeev got married at the age of 30 - by the then concepts it was very late, because he was a poor man. In addition, he has a rather violent disposition - for which, perhaps, he earned the nickname Lomonosov. As Mikhail Vasilyevich himself later noted, his father was "brought up in extreme ignorance."

And already 11 years later, in 1722, according to the ancient inventory, this half-impoverished fisherman acquired the largest two-masted ship in Arkhangelsk, a manor house, fishery, and a fish pond.

Was it just tireless work that made him so rich? Honestly, it is doubtful, although Mikhail Vasilyevich considered it necessary to mention that his father's "contentment with bloody sweat" was acquired.

Meanwhile, supporters of the "royal" version of the origin of Lomonosov also point out that Vasily beat his household members quite often. He knew, they say that it was not his son, so he took out his anger on his son and wife, who died when Mikhail was 9 years old.

The father immediately married a second time to Feodora Mikhailovna Uskova, the daughter of a peasant from the neighboring Ukhtostrovsk volost. However, in the summer of 1724 she died too. Then, a few months later, the father, who had returned from the trades, married a third time to the widow Irina Semyonovna (nee Korelskaya). For thirteen-year-old Lomonosov, the third wife of his father turned out to be "an evil and envious stepmother."

He tried to stay with her as little as possible, often asked for fishing with his father and other Pomors. And when he was at home, he diligently studied reading and writing from the sexton of the local church S. N. Sabelnikov. He more than once assisted fellow villagers in drawing up business papers and petitions, wrote letters. The "Gates of Learning", in Mikhail Lomonosov's own words, are made for him the books he obtained with the help of the same clerk: "Grammar" by Melety Smotritsky, "Arithmetic" by Leonty Magnitsky, as well as the poetic "Psalter" by Simeon Polotsky. As a result, by the age of 14, Mikhailo was already literate, which for some reason caused even more hatred from his stepmother.

To finally get him out of the house, his stepmother advised his father to marry Mikhail. He, having found out about such intentions, first said that he was sick, because of which the wedding had to be postponed, and in the meantime he decided to run away from home.

In December 1730, an opportunity arose - a fish train was leaving for Moscow. At night, Mikhailo threw on two shirts, a naked sheepskin coat, grabbed a knapsack with food and books and set off to catch up with the departed train. And having caught up, he begged the Pomors to give him the opportunity to get with them to Moscow.

In the capital, the 20-year-old Mikhailo went straight to the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, where he entered to study on January 15, 1731.

"Tsarist" version

This is the currently generally accepted version of the development of events. However, there is another little-known version explaining why the over-aged fellow left home and, having gone to a deliberate forgery (he pretended to be the son of a priest), entered the then higher educational institution, where he endured everything - both the ridicule of fellow practitioners and hunger. Is it really, like further ordeals abroad, and many years of work from dark to dark, just for the sake of being called “the first Russian university”? No, it looks like he had some other secret purpose …

It was he who was soon sent to study abroad with two noble children. But that's not all: for the road to the “muzhik” Mikhail was given 300 rubles, and for living - another 400. This was a huge amount of money at that time!

Here, for example, what the future scientist wrote in a report on his spending "on a scientific trip abroad": "In St. Petersburg and on the way to Lubeck, 100 rubles were spent.", "From Lubeck to Marburg - 37 thalers, a suit - 50 tal., fencing teacher for the first month - 5 tal., art teacher - 4 tal., French teacher - 9 tal., dance teacher (for 5 months) - 60 tal., wig, laundry, shoes, stockings - 28 tal., books - 60 tal. "…

How did the "son of a simple peasant" live - he learned fencing and dancing! He was not at all servile and behaved with his teacher from the Mining Academy Johann Friedrich Henkel, with whom he did not have a good relationship. Genkel, who called Lomonosov a person of not very good disposition, devoted to drunkenness, left evidence of the student's "unheard-of antics": he "uttered various indecent words against me", "his actions do not come from weakness of character, but from deliberate anger."To this Genkel also adds his resentment for how many completely undeserved insults this man inflicted on me … especially with his prejudicial stories for me in the city that I only want to get rich on Russian money. Mikhailo himself, they say, "staggered through the streets in a terribly drunken state, … was very impudent and impolite", and also "he was terribly rowdy in his apartment, beat people, participated in various fights in the wine cellar" …

Agree, the style of behavior of the young Lomonosov is very similar to the behavior of the youngest Peter abroad, who, say, for several months in London with his comrades, managed to get away with a rented palace so that he had to be put on a capital repair.

Of course, the "tsarist" version of the origin of Lomonosov has many arguments against it, but the assumption that the father of the scientist who glorified Russia could be another, no less famous Russian, also, apparently, should not be discounted.

Is it the scrolls?

Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov - one of the most prominent historians of the Lomonosov time - hinted somehow that the origins of Mikhail Vasilyevich's asceticism should be sought in his homeland. The most powerful sorcerers-shamans lived in the North at that time. Spinning a snowmobile or making a storm at sea was a piece of cake for them.

However, it seems that they were not omnipotent either. Otherwise, they would not have come to Vasily Lomonosov on the eve of the birth of his son. Moreover, they knew not only the gender of the unborn child, but also offered him a job, not yet born. And for its performance as an advance, they gave Vasily so much money that he at once became one of the richest people in the region. He had a manor house with a house, a fish pond and even his own ship.

Well, what did the sorcerers want in return? This became clear a few years later, when a boat from somewhere escaped to Vasily's ship in complete calm and fog. People boarded the fishing schooner and handed Vasily a case with strange scrolls. "Tell your son - let him read it" …

They say that these were scrolls with the texts of the sages of Hyperborea. There was once such a country on the site of northeastern Russia. The state was rich and strong, which even Alexander the Great reckoned with. And then for some reason it disappeared. And only the ruins of buildings, which are 9000 years old, remained after him. Yes, here are the documents that carry a certain secret.

It was Mikhailo Lomonosov who had to solve it.

And he left home. For knowledge. He studied first in Russia. Then he pounded the doorsteps of foreign universities for five years. And everywhere he carried a case with those scrolls.

Read the scrolls - this is the order of the sorcerers. The father's debt will have to be paid by the son. Northern sorcerers are omnipotent. Disobedience will be punished severely and in due time.

The first person to whom Mikhailo showed those scrolls was Professor Feofan Prokopovich at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. It was he who covered Lomonosov, vouched that Mikhailo was the son of a village priest. He also helped the student to master Latin - the language of languages. But even the professor could not help the student in reading the strange texts. He only suggested that the writings on the scrolls are similar to the lists of medieval alchemists.

That is why Lomonosov's further path lay in Europe, primarily in Germany, the center of science at that time. At first Lomonosov studied in Marburg, attended lectures on physics and chemistry by Professor Wolf. In the formulas of chemistry, he saw something like writing on scrolls. Chemistry is known to be the daughter of alchemy.

However, when Mikhailo dared to show those scrolls to Christian Wolf, he also just threw up his hands. The scriptures reminded him of the recipe for the philosopher's stone. “Leave it, my friend. You cannot afford this work. But Lomonosov could not stop.

And he went to Freiburg, where he continued to improve in sciences, geology and mining. And he did it so zealously that the new professor Johann Handel even complained about the violent student in Moscow. They say that he is not at all sick with him, he does not want to do what he is forced to, but does what he pleases.

However, the quarrel may actually have occurred because the professor wanted to surreptitiously look into a mysterious leather case. Or even kidnap him. Yes, Lomonosov did not give it.

Mikhaila had to move out from the professor, with whom he lived and dined. He found himself a corner in one poor family. According to some sources, the head of it was a widow, according to others - by the time they settled with them, Lomonosov and her husband was still alive. One way or another, but the daughter of the owners Elizaveta-Christina had her eye on the stately Pomor. Yes, and that lip is not stupid … In general, the novel turned out to be stormy. And with the consequences. The owners were not happy about this and kicked out the tenant, despite the fact that the daughter was already pregnant with him.

Lomonosov went to the tavern and got drunk out of grief, as is usual with a Russian brother. And out of drunkenness they shaved him into the soldiers. They took the case with the scrolls, and put him under lock and key so that the future serviceman would not run away.

Elizabeth, learning about this, gave the betrothed to prison some instrument. Lomonosov opened the lock, stunned the sentry, took the case, climbed over the wall and fled.

They were chasing him, but he was already outside Germany.

The visionary dream and the death of the father

Meanwhile, the sorcerers were pressing on Vasily: "Did the son read the letter?" Lomonosov's father defended himself as best he could. He even offered the magicians three times more money than he once received from them. But they just brushed it off: the information from the scrolls was more important to them.

And in order to hurry up their son, the sorcerers found an effective way. Vasily Lomonosov soon disappeared without a trace, and at that moment Mikhail himself had a prophetic dream. Say, the ship on which his father was sailing crashed, and he himself was thrown onto an uninhabited island in the White Sea.

Returning to St. Petersburg, Mikhailo Lomonosov immediately began to make inquiries about his father. He was informed that Vasily had indeed gone to sea for four months and still had not returned. Then Mikhail wrote where to look for his father. Indeed, the fishermen found his body on the very island that his son pointed out to them.

Mikhailo Vasilyevich understood the hint … And since 1741, he works with all his might. The Russian Academy of Sciences, organized by him, helps its leader in any way it can. And he himself replaces the whole university. Among his many scientific discoveries - primarily research on mercury. These are traces of how he searched for the Philosopher's Stone. And that miraculous stone, as you know, can do a lot - turn lead into gold, guarantee eternal youth to its owner, and something else …

They became interested in the strange experiments of the academician. Rumors spread around Petersburg about the case that Lomonosov constantly carried with him.

On an autumn evening, three men attacked him on a dark street. But, as a contemporary testified, “with the greatest courage he defended himself against these three robbers: he hit one of them so that he could not only get up, but could not even recover for a long time; he hit another in the face so that he ran with all his might into the bushes, covered in blood; and the third was no longer difficult for him to overcome; he knocked him down (while the first, waking up, fled into the forest) and, holding him under his feet, threatened that he would immediately kill if he did not reveal to him what the names of the other two robbers were and what they wanted to do with him.

This one confessed that they only wanted to rob him, and then let him go. The robbers, it seems, needed a case with scrolls. Lomonosov pondered: who could have pursued him in the capital? Sorcerers don't work so rudely …

It turned out that the all-powerful Orlov himself was hunting the scrolls. First, he went straight to the goal - he sent robbers. But the case did not burn out, and the count postponed the second operation until a convenient moment.

Lomonosov, meanwhile, had only a few experiments left to do. He had already learned a lot from those scrolls and was close to revealing the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. But something, apparently, seemed strange to him in the last recipe. And in the decisive experiment, he did not observe the measures indicated in the scroll, but took substances in microscopic doses and retained only the proportions. And this precaution saved him. The received substance did not give life - it carried death. It was an explosive of unprecedented power. Even a crumb caused a huge explosion.

Since Lomonosov lived at the academy, where explosions and fires were commonplace, no one seemed to pay much attention to that case. But Lomonosov decided not to risk it. Realizing what was happening, he burned both his notes and the scrolls themselves.

He knew what it threatened him with. But there was no turning back. And soon Lomonosov had another prophetic dream: a calendar fell from the table and opened on the date - April 4. Mikhailo Vasilyevich understood that he would not survive this day. Indeed, he died suddenly on April 4, 1765, at the age of only 54, although he was famous for his excellent health.

Count Orlov immediately ordered to turn over the laboratory and … got a mysterious case. But the scrolls were not there. Then they took up the scientist's archive. Many of Lomonosov's papers disappeared immediately after his death. Miraculously, only a list of 14 works that he conducted in recent months and weeks has survived. But the manuscripts themselves have not been found to this day …

Was he right when he destroyed the scrolls? Maybe yes. Dynamite from the mines immediately migrated to the battlefields. And the atom first became a bomb, and only then did it start working in a nuclear power plant. Well, what would have happened to us all, if in the time of Lomonosov explosives of monstrous power had been used?.. Yes, probably the same thing that may have happened to the inhabitants of the same Hyperborea and the no less mysterious Atlantis. Our civilization, like those that came before it, would have vanished. And so Mikhail Vasilyevich saved us. He was shrewd and foresaw the possible consequences. He did not regret himself, but he protected his descendants from unnecessary misfortune. And for that, I bow to him and thank him …