Mikhail Mikhaylovich Borodkin (1852 – 1919) was Russian Empire
lieutenant general
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, military lawyer, senator, state councilman, and historian. He is best remembered as the author of a seminal six volume history of
Finland
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, published from 1908 to 1915.
Biography
Mikhail Mikhailovich Borodkin was born in
Bomarsund in 1852. Borodkin was a graduate of Alexander Military Law Academy. Assistant to the chief military prosecutor, 1909; appointed head of the
Alexander Military Law Academy
Alexander Military Law Academy (russian: Александровская военно-юридическая академия) (1867–1917) was an educational institution in Russian Empire that provided military law education for officers of Russia ...
, 1911; Senator, 1911. Member of the State Council, 1916.
Borodkin wrote extensively on the Finnish question. He published an extensive and detailed six-volume ''Istoriia Finliandii'' (History of Finland), published from 1908 to 1915.
Works
* ''Istoriia Finliandii'' (History of Finland). In six volumes. 1908–1915.
** Peter the Great times.
** Elizabeth Petrovna Times
** Times of Catherine II and Paul I.
** Time of Emperor Nicholas I
** The Recent History of Finland. Management Time of N. I. Bobrikov
** Volume 6. Time of Emperor Alexander II
* ''Finland: Its Place in the Russian State.'' 1911.
Further reading
* V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.* The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Vol. 5.
References
1852 births
1919 deaths
People from Sund, Åland
People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Imperial Russian Army generals
Historians from the Russian Empire
Historians of Finland
Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
Members of the Russian Assembly
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