Mikhail Borodkin
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Borodkin was Russian Empire lieutenant general, military lawyer 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
