ABSTRACT
In 1942 Lomonosov grumbled that 65 per cent of his time went on looking after their apartment and the family cat. He was fond of the cat he felt unsettled throughout his retirement. The idea of a permanent move was inherent in the family's 1948 expedition to the United States, although at heart Lomonosov neither wanted nor expected to forsake Britain. On several occasions during 1938-1940 he offered his services to the British government for war work, not just in the hope of some extra earnings but also from a sense of patriotism for his adopted country. The Department of Military Communications requested him to compile a description of the Soviet railways, and then specified several other related tasks, possibly connected with Lend-Lease shipments of railway supplies to the USSR. Different ways of remembering Lomonosov surfaced within his family immediately after his death.
