Career
He is best remembered as the author of a seminal six volume history of Finland, published from 1908 to 1915. Mikhail Mikhailovich Borodkin was born in 1852. Borodkin was a graduate of Alexander Military Law Academy.
Assistant to the chief military prosecutor, 1909.
Appointed head of the Alexander Military Law Academy, 1911. Senator, Borodkin wrote extensively on the Finnish question.
He published an extensive and detailed six-volume Istoriia Finliandii (History of Finland), published from 1908 to 1915.