Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian "Leonardo da Vinci", the son of a Pomor peasant from Kholmogory, was not only a brilliant physicist, chemist and astronomer, but also an outstanding Russian historian, one of the first to speak out against the Norman theory and the doctrine preached by German historians about the "unhistoricity of the Russian people." Lomonosov believed that the Slavic "language and people extend into deep antiquity"; the Slavs lived four thousand years ago on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and participated in the Trojan War, after which they settled throughout Europe. A significant part of M.V.'s writings tells about this. Lomonosov "Ancient Russian History".