Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov

Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov

Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov [Russian: Михаил Ларионович Михайлов] (1829, Orenburg - 1865, Siberia) was a Russian author.

Biography

He was educated at Petrograd and engaged in literary pursuits as a translator, journalist and writer of fiction. His political sympathies caused his exile to Siberia.^[1]

Writing

He was a contributor to Sovremennik (“The Contemporary”) and an advocate of the reforms of the self-emancipation era. His collected translations and writings were published (3 vols., 1858–59).^[1]

Notes

1. Rines 1920.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Mikhailov, Mikhail Larionovitch". Encyclopedia Americana. This source gives a birthyear of 1826, as does Nordisk familjebok, but all the Wikipedia articles in other languages on this topic use the date of 1829.