Mikhail Borodkin
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Borodkin was Russian Empire lieutenant general, military lawyer, senator, state councilman, and historian. He is best remembered as the author of a seminal six volume history of Finland, 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], 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, published from 1908 to 1915.
Works
- Istoriia Finliandii. 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.