Career
He was of Armenian descent. Together with Gabriel Ter-Mikaelyan he applied to construct the Armenian church of Thadeus and Bartholomew in Baku in 1901. Mikhail"s son George Rotinoff founded Rotinoff Motors Limited. at Colnbrook near Slough in 1952.
Rotinoff is buried in Brompton Cemetery in London on the outer side of the western columbarium.