 Mikhail Lomonosov had studied mining principles in Germany, concluding that "it is necessary to use not only books, but objects of Nature", and it was he who came up with the principals of the charter of Moscow Imperial University, founded in January 1755, and for the founding of its mineralogical collection.The following month the Demidovs presented "the Mineral Study of Genkel" to the university.This collection was exhibited to the public in 1759 in the library of Aptekarsky House in the Department of Medicine.