Михаил Алексеевич Дроздов
1861–1940 (age 79)
Biography
Mikhail Alekseyevich Drozdov was born in Moscow in 1861. As a lecturer, he contributed to Russian intellectual and educational life during the late Imperial period and into the Soviet era, witnessing the transformation of Russian society and academia.
Drozdov died in 1940 at the age of 79, having lived through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, and the early decades of Soviet rule. His long life spanned nearly eight decades of profound historical change in Russia.