9 September] 1848) was a Russian Lieutenant General, senator, military writer, historian and author of the first official history of the War of 1812, written in four volumes on the instructions of Nicholas I. Alexander's father Ivan Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky was a known doctor of Ukrainian origin who studied at the University of Göttingen and briefly worked in 1789 at the Russian Ministry of Finance.

[2] After the war, in September 1814 Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky was a member of the Russian delegation at the Congress of Vienna and remained until its end in June 1815.

In 1816, he was appointed Aide-de-camp to the Emperor, who was accompanied on his travels to the south and Russia to the congress in Aachen.

[2] In 1829, he participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29 serving with the rank of major general under the command of Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch.

He was buried next to his wife (d. 1832) at the Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, where their tomb is preserved.