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.

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