Mikhail Volpin was born on December 20, 1902 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a writer, known for The Horsemen (1950), Spring (1947) and Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968). He was married to Irina Glebovna Barteneva. He died on July 21, 1988 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].