Mikhail Rosenheim

Mikhail Pavlovich Rosenheim (Михаил Павлович Розенгейм, 31 July 1820, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, —19 March 1887, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, editor (Zanoza, 1863-1865), publicist and translator.

[1] Rosenheim started writing poetry in the late 1830s, but thought little of it and debuted only in the mid-1850 (Otechestvennye Zapiski, Russky Vestnik).

Initially a typical exponent of the Nekrasov-founded 'vice-flogging' trend in the Russian poetry, he was rather unpopular with the literary left, notably Nikolai Dobrolyubov, who mocked Rosenheim's 'safe' radicalism in his reviews and parodies.

In 1863 Mikhail Rosenheim started editing the satirical journal Zanoza (Splinter) which quickly became popular and reached a circulation of 5 thousand in 1865 when it was closed by the Russian authorities.

After the publication of his History of Russian Military Law in 1878, he received a diamond ring from Alexander II, as a personal gift.