Mikhail Prokofyevich Gerasimov (Russian: ?????´? ?????´?????? ????´?????, IPA: [m??x?'il pr?'kof?j?v??t? g??'ras??m?f] (listen); 1889–1939) was one of the most widely read working-class poets in early-twentieth-century Russia.
Initially embracing the Bolshevik revolution as a liberating event and participating in the effort to create a new proletarian culture, following the New Economic Policy he became disillusioned and was imprisoned during the Joseph Stalin era.