General Mikhail Nikolayevich Annenkov was a Russian nobleman, author, military officer, and renowned engineer. An important figure in the history of the Russian conquest of Turkestan in the 19th Century, he was Governor-General of the Transcaspian Region.
Mikhail Izrailevich Armalinsky born in Leningrad, USSR on April 23, 1947 is a Russian poet, writer, blogger and publisher of erotica. He caused scandal and outrage within Russian literary circles, following publication in 1986 of a pornographically-toned diary, ostensibly by Alexander Pushkin. This led to him being described as "The Pushkin pornographer".
Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov was a Soviet and Russian historian and archeologist, who came to be recognized as the founding father of modern Khazar studies.
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland, where he died in 1927.
Mikhail Yulevich Ashenbrenner (September 21 was a Russian revolutionary, and one of the leaders of the Military Organisation of the Narodnaya Volya, the group that carried out the assassination of the Tsar Alexander II.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Avdeev was a Russian novelist, playwright and publicist, best known for the Tamarin trilogy, published in 1849–1852 by Sovremennik.
Mikhail Babushkin was a Soviet polar aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Together with Mikhail Vodopyanov, he was the first to land an airplane on the North Pole.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist traditions. Bakunin's prestige as a revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe.
Prince Mikhail Petrovich Barataev was a Russian Empire bureaucrat of Georgian origin and an amateur numismatist, the first to have studied the coinage of Georgia.
