European experience and foreign professorship at the stage of establishing Moscow University

The article reviews the history of establishing Moscow University and first decade its performance in context considering European experience role visiting foreign professors. Attention is drawn to use universities projected management system ensuring autonomy by M.V. Lomonosov. authors show I.I. Shuvalov, favorite Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, implementation project University, analyze developed hierarchy university’s governing bodies, structure administrative positions, privileges granted government. dominant professors functioning faculties revealed detail, as well conditions created for their work Moscow, personal each invited educational process during years University. reveal conflicts between Russian inevitability at stage drawing attention transition language teaching reign Catherine Great, Russia.