Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov

Mikhail Nikolaevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Римский-Корсаков 20 August 1873 – 11 March 1951) was a Russian and Soviet zoologist who specialized in entomology at Saint Petersburg University and the Petrograd Forestry Institute.

A son of the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he was awarded as an Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1945).

After early education at home, he went to the Karl May Gymnasium and joined Saint Petersburg Imperial University, where he graduated in 1895.

He became an assistant professor of entomology and zoogeography in 1901 and then received a master's degree in zoology in 1913.

He also spent some time lecturing on forest entomology at the Forestry Institute.