Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, Mikhail graduated from the famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy. He had danced with the renowned Bolshoi Ballet for eight years, during which time he performed full repertory of the theatre, including soloist parts in such ballets as Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Spartacus, Swan Lake, Sketches, Raymonda, Don Quixote, Golden Age, and many others. Among his teachers are Asaf Messerer and Boris Akimov. With the Bolshoi, he toured all over the world, particularly such countries as Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, France, Morocco, India, Japan, China, and the Unites States. Mikhail is a graduate of the Moscow State Choreography Institute. Under Professor Peter Pestov, he received his M.F.A. in Dance Pedagogy and Choreography.

Since 1990, Mikhail has been residing in the US. He has performed with the following companies: Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Los Angeles Classical Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, and San Francisco Opera Ballet as well as appeared as a guest artist with many others throughout the United States. He spent six years with Colorado Ballet performing diverse classical and contemporary repertoire, including ballets by George Balanchine, Choo San Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Christopher Wheeldon, and Frederick Ashton. He has also served as a Ballet Master and Repetiteur for Colorado Ballet and on the faculty of the Academy of Colorado Ballet. He has taught for the Houston Ballet, Oregon Dance Theatre, David Taylor Dance Theatre, State Street Ballet, Ballet Arlington, Guangzhou Ballet of China, and Galili Dance in Netherlands. He has been a guest teacher in Brazil, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, and Great Britain, and appeared as guest lecturer at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, UK, Colorado College, and Wyoming State University. He served as a judge and master teacher for Youth America Grand Prix Competition as well as other international dance competitions. His choreographic credits include staging the all-Goleizovsky program for Ballet Arlington, TX, and Universal Ballet Academy (formerly Kirov Ballet Academy) as well as choreography for Opera Colorado’s Eugene Onegin, La Traviata, and Don Giovanni, and Grand Défilé for Youth America Grand Prix Competition Gala at Lincoln Center, NY. He taught for the Royal Ballet School in London and is now on the faculty of the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s official school, the Elmhurst School for Dance in Birmingham, UK.
Mikhail is an official representative and appointed trustee of the Kasyan Goleizovsky Foundation.