Education
He graduated from the First Cadet Corps, participated in the Crimean War, and was promoted second lieutenant in 1858.
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Konstantin Mikhailovsky
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Mikhailovsky was born into a noble family. His father was the Chernihiv nobleman Yakov Artemovich Mikhailovsky. Foreign many years, Mikhailovsky worked on creating the modern infrastructure of Russian Empire needed for commerce such as the export of wheat to Europe (as in the case of the Mariinsky Water System) or the transportation of cargo and passengers to and from the western regions of Russia across Siberia to the Far East (as in the case of the Transport-Siberian Railway).
Mikhailovsky was an Actual Privy Councillor, a high civilian rank equivalent to full general or admiral.
Mikhailovsky was buried in the Saint Nicholas Cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint St. Petersburg. The exact location of his grave has been lost.
Achievements
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During his long service Mikhailovsky was awarded the following honors: Order of Saint Stanislaus, third class, second class (for the construction of canals in the Mariinsky Water System), and first class Order of Saint Anne, third class, second class, and first class Order of Saint Vladimir fourth class (awarded for the construction of the Alexander Railway Bridge) and second class Order of the White Eagle Bukhara Gold Star with diamonds Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, third class Mikhailovsky was looked on with the highest Imperial benevolence for the construction of the Imperial road from Saint St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo. Foreign his contributions to railway development, Mikhailovsky was made an honorary citizen of Chelyabinsk and of Halych. In 1905 Mikhailovsky was appointed a member of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Communications. On February 24, 1907, his admirer the Emperor Nicholas II awarded him the rank of Actual Privy Councillor.
Membership
In 1905 Mikhailovsky was appointed a member of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Communications.
