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Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov , 1881-1964, Russian painter. Larionov, together with Natalya Goncherova, was the founder of Rayonism, one of the earliest movements in nonfigurative art. Settling in Paris in 1914, Larionov stopped painting in 1915 and designed sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe the same year. ... Read more
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin , 1814-76, Russian revolutionary and leading exponent of anarchism . He came from an aristocratic family but entered upon revolutionary activities as a young man. He took part (1848-49) in the revolutions in France and Saxony and was sent back to Russia and exiled to Siberia. Escapi... Read more
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov , 1948-, Russian-American dancer and choreographer, b. Riga, Latvia (then in the USSR). He studied in Riga and performed with the Kirov Ballet (1966-74). Although highly respected and extremely popular in the Soviet Union, he defected to the West in 1974, where he danced with t... Read more
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin , 1875-1946, Russian revolutionary. Of peasant origin, he was active in revolutionary affairs from his youth. He became the first chairman of the central executive committee of the USSR, or titular head of state (1919-46), and was a member (1925-46) of the politburo. ... Read more
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev , 1857-1918, Russian general, chief of staff (1915-17) of Czar Nicholas II . With other officers he urged the czar to abdicate in favor of the czarevich in order to save the dynasty prior to the Russian Revolution. Alekseyev was briefly chief of staff in the provisiona... Read more
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , 1804-57, first of the nationalist school of Russian composers. His two operas, A Life for the Czar (1836) and Russlan and Ludmilla (1842), marked the beginning of a characteristically Russian style of music. His best symphonic work was the incidental music to the play ... Read more
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky , 1893-1937, Soviet marshal. An officer in the czarist army from 1914, he joined (1918) the Bolshevik party after the Russian Revolution and held important commands in the civil war of 1918-20 and the Russo-Polish war of 1920. Tukhachevsky was instrumental in suppre... Read more
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov , 1891-1940, Russian novelist and playwright. He wrote satirical stories ( The Deviliad, 1925, tr. 1972) and comedies ( Zoe's Apartment, 1926) and the long novel The White Guard (1925, tr. 1971), in which a Kievan family hostile to the revolution is sympathetically ... Read more
Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov
Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov , 1745-1813, Russian field marshal. He fought against the Polish Confederation of Bar (see Bar, Confederation of ) and served in the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768-74 and 1787-92, in which he lost an eye. He took part (1805) in the battle of Austerlitz, which was fought a... Read more
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov , 1905-84, Russian novelist. Sholokhov won international fame for an epic novel of his native land, The Silent Don (4 vol., 1928-40; tr. in 2 vol., And Quiet Flows the Don, 1934, and The Don Flows Home to the Sea, 1941). The work, which won a Stalin Prize in 19... Read more

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Romanov, Mikhail Fyodorovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ROMANOV, MIKHAIL FYODOROVICH (1596 – 1645...of the Romanov Dynasty. Born in 1596, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov was the son of Fyodor...1547, when Anastasia Romanovna Yurieva, Mikhail's great aunt, married Tsar Ivan IV...
Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi Spokesperson for the Palestinian...group in the West Bank and Gaza, Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi (born 1946), a professor of...by her literary accomplishments. Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi was born October 8, 1946, in...
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka The composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857) was the earliest important...of importance. He is known as the father of Russian music. Mikhail Glinka was born on May 20, 1804, in Novospasskoe, a village...
Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov The Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a satirist...depicting the grotesque, the comic, and the fantastic. Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 2, 1891, in Kiev of a middle...
Sholokhov, Mikhail Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History SHOLOKHOV, MIKHAIL ALEXANDROVICH (1905 – 1984...the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965. Mikhail Sholokhov was born in the Don Cossack...bibliography Ermolaev, Herman. (1982). Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art. Princeton, NJ...
Katkov, Mikhail Nikiforovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History KATKOV, MIKHAIL NIKIFOROVICH (1818 – 1887...publicist. The son of a minor civil servant, Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov graduated from Moscow...thinker Alexander Herzen, and the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. In the early 1840s Katkov broke...
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Russian revolutionary agitator Mikhail Aleksandro vich Bakunin (1814-1876) was the leading...the political domination of individuals by the state. Mikhail Bakunin was born on May 18, 1814, in Premukhino in...
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History BAKHTIN, MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH (1895 – 1975...leo nikolayevich bibliography Bakhtin, Mikhail. (1968). Rabelais and His World...Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Bakhtin, Mikhail. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination...
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL AFANASIEVICH (1891 – 1940...acclaimed novel Master and Margarita. Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was born in Kiev...theater; theater bibliography Bulgakov, Mikhail. (1987). Heart of a Dog, reprint...
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov The Soviet novelist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) won an international...Sholokhov won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965. Mikhail Sholokhov was born on May 24, 1905, in a village in the...

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Vrubel, Mikhail
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Vrubel, Mikhail (1856–1910). Russian painter and designer, the outstanding...Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. In 1890 Vrubel began to do interpretations of Mikhail Lermontov's poem The Demon and the theme became central to his work...
Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich ( b. Vladimir, Russia, 14 November 1788; d. Vienna, Austria...Oceans ” : Moscow, 1954), pp. 168-179; and “ Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, ” in Ote-chestvennye fiziko-geografy...
Glinka, Mikhail (Ivanovich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Glinka, Mikhail (Ivanovich) ( b Novospasskoye, Smolensk, 1804; d Berlin, 1857). Russ. composer, regarded as founder of nat. sch. and...
Rudy, Mikhail
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Rudy, Mikhail ( b Tashkent, 1963). Russ. pianist. Won Bach comp. Leipzig 1971 and Marguérite Long comp. Paris 1975. Eur. d...
Nesterov, Mikhail
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Nesterov, Mikhail (1862–1942). Russian painter, active mainly in Moscow. For most of his career he concentrated on subjects from...
Kutuzov, Mikhail Ilarionovich, Prince of Smolensk
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Kutuzov, Mikhail Ilarionovich, Prince of Smolensk (1745–1813) Russian field-marshal. He distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish...
Kupriianov, Mikhail
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Kupriianov, Mikhail. See Kukryniksy .
Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich (b. 19 Nov. 1875, d. 3 June 1946). Head of state of the Soviet Union 1919–46 Born in Verkhniaia Troitsa...
Ostrogradsky, Mikhail Vasilievich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography OSTROGRADSKY, MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH ( b . Pashennaya [now in Poltava oblast], Russia, 24 September 1801; d . Poltava [now Ukrainian S.S.R...
Pletnev, Mikhail
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Pletnev, Mikhail ( b 1957). Russian pianist and conductor. Gold Medal, Tchaikovsky int. pf. comp., Moscow, 1978. Founded Russ. Nat. Orch. 1990. International tours as pianist and cond.

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Mikhail starts her second business for heavy set. (Kelly Mikhail) (Women At Large Fitness Salon)
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Dunya Mikhail: 'The War Works Hard'
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 7/6/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...NPR Morning Edition 07-06-2007 Dunya Mikhail: 'The War Works Hard' Host: RENEE...of poems by exiled Iraqi writer Dunya Mikhail. The title is ironic, jokey. Picture...about the job of killing. But then Dunya Mikhail never had time for flowery verses. She...
Ronald the Lionhearted meets Mikhail the Magnificent
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/17/1987; ; 700+ words ; Ronald the Lionhearted and Mikhail the Magnificent met on the top of the...guarded white tent. "I am here," said Mikhail, "to turn my medium-sized swords...Cheating is foreign to us," Mikhail assured Ronald. "I cannot take your...
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Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 9/5/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...reporter Covington Catholic seniors Peter Mikhail and Matt Giese became close friends when...school careers took different paths. Mikhail was a starting midfielder on CovCath...Giese scored two goals off assists by Mikhail. The two seniors have been working together...
District's other Ovechkin; Mikhail forges a life of his own working for the Mystics.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/24/2008; 700+ words ; ...then glances at his phone. Time to go, Mikhail Ovechkin says through a thick Russian...leading scorer. At the end of the hallway, Mikhail arrives at his office - a cramped, windowless...operations for the Washington Mystics. Mikhail watches the Mystics struggle against the...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky's interview is not against law - Esquire magazine.
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Mikhail, 5, in the Countdown chair!
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Worcester A City of Firsts in an Armenian Nation of Firsts - Mikhail Simonyan, Violinist
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 9/13/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...2003 at 8 p.m. when 17-year-old Mikhail Simonyan, who promises, at this early...violinists, will make his New England debut. Mikhail will perform Lalo's violin concerto...night of the Worcester Music Festival. Mikhail, the son of an Armenian father and a...
Mikhail Gorbachev - Superstar The adulation has his critics scratching heads
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/24/1992; ; 700+ words ; Mikhail Gorbachev's image in the West, especially...Sovietologists do not share in the adulation. Mikhail Gorbachev: heroic figure of our time...that historic day in November 1989 when Mikhail Gorbachev said, `Let the wall come down...
Mikhail Gorbachev Receives 2008 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 10/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...Soviet leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev was presented with the National...the Berlin Wall, of how many victories Mikhail Gorbachev helped win for freedom, and...by bestowing the 20th Liberty Medal on Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who reshaped our...