Bearers include Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857), a Russian composer;
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), a Russian novelist and playwright;
Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931), the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union serving from 1985 to 1991;
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), a Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
