According to Valentin Yanin, Michael was the son or grandson of Dmitry Mikhailovich Volyn-Bobrok ("Little Beaver"), the hero of the Battle of Kulikovo, and Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Grand Prince Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair, sister of Dmitry Donskoy.
1458, was a 15th-century Russian Orthodox fool-for-Christ"s-sake associated with the Klopsky Holy Trinity Monastery near Novgorod on the river Veryazha. A hagiography of the saint, was written in 1478-1479, redacted in the 90"s, and again in 1537. Although folklorish, it provides the earliest literary evidence for Michael"s activities in the monastery.
During the period of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars, a mysterious fool-for-Christ"s-sake, appeared in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity.
Among the miracles attributed to the saint by the hagiography are the conversion of robbers, one of whom became the monk Dorofey, the discovery of an inexhaustible fountain, the prediction of weather, and various other acts of clairvoyance and prophecy. His relics are venerated at the Holy Trinity Mikhailo Klopsky Men"s Monastery in Novgorod.
