 Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky

Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky () (1827–1901) was a Russian statesman who served as Minister of State Property (a post roughly equivalent to the American position of Secretary of the Interior) under the reign of Alexander III.Ostrovsky was born March 30 (April 11 new style), 1827, in the Zamoskvorechye District of Moscow.