Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov (; 13 ga Fabrairu 1818 <unk> 1 ga Agusta 1887) ya kasance dan jarida mai ra'ayin mazan jiya na Rasha mai tasiri a lokacin mulkin tsar Alexander III. Ya kasance mai goyon bayan kishin kasa na Rasha, muhimmin adadi a cikin ƙirƙirar ma'anar asalin ƙasa da manufa. Bayan yakin Crimean (1856) da kuma
Tashin hankalin Poland na 1863, Katkov ya watsar da ra'ayoyinsa na Anglophile na sassaucin ra'ayi kuma ya ƙi gyare-gyaren tsar Alexander II na farko. Maimakon haka ya inganta wata ƙasa mai ƙarfi ta Rasha da goyon bayan mutanen Rasha masu himma tare da hangen nesa na ƙasa. Ra'ayoyinsa sun dogara ne akan ra'ayoyin Yammacin Turai (akasin ra'ayoyin Slavophile). Mujallar adabinsa ta "Russkii Vestnik" ("Manzon Rasha") da jaridar "Moskovskie Vedomosti" ("Labaran Moscow") sun kasance kafofin watsa labarai masu nasara da tasiri don inganta ra'ayoyinsa.