Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet (Ukrainian: Мачтет Григорій Олександрович) (1852-1901) was a writer from the Russian Empire.

He is known as the author of the well-known revolutionary song "Tormented by Heavy Bondage" (Russian: Замучен тяжёлой неволей).

In 1865, he was allegedly expelled from fourth grade at the Nemirov Gymnasium for showing sympathy towards the participants in the Polish uprising of 1863.

[1] In 1880, Machtet married fellow political exile Yelena Petrovna Medvedeva, a participant in the infamous "Trial of the Fifty".

The attempts made to found a commune were unsuccessful and Machtet returned to Russia in 1875, settling in Saint Petersburg.