Mikhail Gorbachev | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Mikhail Bulgakov | Mikhail Lermontov | Mikhail Vrubel | Mikhail Bakunin | Mikhail Botvinnik | Mikhail Skobelev | Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov | Mikhail Glinka | Mikhail Chigorin | Mikhail Tal | Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov | Mikhail Turovsky | Mikhail Trepashkin | Mikhail Sholokhov | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Kaneev | Mikhail Boyarsky | Mikhail Bakhtin | Mikhail Vorontsov | Mikhail Tukhachevsky | Mikhail Pletnev | Mikhail Nesterov | Mikhail Natarevich | Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet | Mikhail Tomsky | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov | Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov |
Written in 1850, it was first produced in January 1851 at a benefit performance for the seminal 19th-century Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.