Russian writer
Mikhail Ivanovich Popov (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Попов) (1742, Yaroslavl – circa 1790[1]) was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist of the 18th century.
- ^ Iurii Vladimirovich Stennik, "Mikhail Ivanovich Popov," in Marcus C. Levitt, Early Modern Russian Writers: Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, p. 312: "No information has been preserved regarding the later years of Popov's life or the circumstances of his death; even its exact date is unknown."