Alexander Mikhailovich Bakunin was a Russian diplomat, a prominent member of the Tver nobility, poet and publicist from the Bakunin family. He owned the Pryamukhino estate, where he was visited by famous figures of Russian culture including Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolai Stankevich and Timofey Granovsky. He was also the father of the revolutionary socialist Mikhail Bakunin.

The Bakunin family is an old Russian noble family, claiming descent from the Hungarian House of Báthory.