Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov (31 May 1893 — 2 September 1965) was a leading Soviet specialist in medieval Russian paleography.

Tikhomirov was born and spent his whole life in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, where he was in charge of the Archaeographic Commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (of which he was a member since 1953). He was responsible for the Soviet edition of the Full Collection of Russian Chronicles

Full Collection of Russian Chronicles

The Complete Collection of Rus and Russian Chronicles is a series of volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation...

 and edited collections of many other medieval documents, including the Russkaya Pravda

Russkaya Pravda

Russkaya Pravda was the legal code of Kievan Rus' and the subsequent Rus' principalities during the times of feudal division.In spite of great influence of Byzantine legislation on the contemporary world, and in...

and Sobornoye Ulozhenie.

His major works include A Study of Russkaya Pravda (1941), Old Russian Cities (1956, 2nd ed.), Medieval Moscow (1957), Russia in the Sixteenth Century (1962), Russian Culture from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century (1968), Russian State from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century (1973), and Ancient Rus (1975).