Education
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.
At first, he sang in Kiev and Tiflis, and, between 1884 and 1896, on the Imperial operatic stage in Saint St. Petersburg. He possessed a sonorous and tender voice, and excelled at singing in his upper range. Russian composer Anton Rubinstein dedicated one of his many songs, "Autumn" (1891), to Mikhaylov.