(15) April 1765)
was born in the village of
Mishaninskaya,Arkhangelogorodskaya province, in a fairly
wealthy family near the White Sea. Vasiliy
Dorofeevich Lomonosov (his father) married
Elena Sivkova (Lomonosov`s mother). Vasiliy Dorofeevich was a good man by nature, but his up-bringing was not perfect. Lomonosov`s mother died very early, when he was nine years old. In 1721, the father married Feodora Uskova, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. In summer of 1724 she died. A few months later his father returned from the sea fishing and married for the third time. The widow Irina Semyonovna Korelskaya became his wife. For Lomonosov, who was thirteen years old, the third father's wife was “an evil and jealous stepmother”.