Mikhail Savoyarov was a Russian chansonnier, composer, poet, comic actor and mime. In the first quarter of the 20th century he was a famous satirical singer-songwriter. His popularity peak was in the years of war (1914–1917) when he began to be called the «King of eccentrics». It was also the time when he became friends with Aleksandr Blok. Considering that the period of his greatest popularity was almost at the exact time as the brief period of renaming the capital, Savoyarov can be called the Petrograd artist in the strict sense of the word.
Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky was a Russian Imperial amateur historian who focused on the era of palace revolutions, and the history of the 18th century Russia.
Shoyfet, Mikhail Semyonovich was a hypnotherapist, hypnotist and author of an original method of psychophysical self-regulation. Journalist, member of the Union of Journalists of Moscow and Russia. Writer, author of the books “Training of psychophysical self-regulation”, 2003, “One Hundred Great Doctors, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, “Undiscovered Secrets of Hypnosis”, 2006, “Hypnosis: Criminals and Victims”, 2010, “Psychophysical self-regulation. Big modern practical course”, 2010, "Mediums and spirits" (2011), as well as multiple publications on history and practice of hypnosis, a subset of physiology of elevated neural function.
Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic Wars and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853.
Mikhail Shatrov (1932-2010) was a Soviet playwright. In 1958 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. Member of the CPSU since 1961. In a series of historical plays, he shook up the genre of Leniniana.
Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov is a prominent Russian poet, songwriter and bard. He was born in Obninsk. He graduated from Moscow State University and now lives in Moscow. Shcherbakov started writing songs in 1978. Since then he has written more than 400 songs and lyrics. He has recorded 20 CD albums and more than 20 audio tapes.
Prince Mikhailo Mikhailovich Shcherbatov was a leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment, on the par with Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolay Novikov. His view of human nature and social progress is kindred to Swift's pessimism. He was known as a statesman, historian, writer and philosopher, and was one of the most visible representatives of the nascent Russian conservatism during the second half of the 18th century.
Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman is a theoretical physicist, formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, currently Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.
