Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov (russian: Михаил Ларионович Михайлов) (16 January 1829 – 15 August 1865) was a Russian author.

Biography

He was educated at Saint Petersburg and engaged in literary pursuits as a translator, journalist and writer of fiction. His political sympathies caused his exile to Siberia.

Writing

He was a contributor to ''

Sovremennik ''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...

'' (“The Contemporary”) and an advocate of the reforms of the self-emancipation era. His collected translations and writings were published (3 vols., 1858–59).

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* 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. 1829 births 1865 deaths People from Orenburg Journalists from the Russian Empire Male writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century journalists Russian male journalists 19th-century translators from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire {{Russia-writer-stub