Civil engineer, revered Latvian architect, whose 18 apartment buildings have been built in Riga at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries.

A personality of extraordinary temper and artistic inspiratione, Eisenstein felt building material absolutely precisely combining its colours and structures in a neat way. Fecundity of his imagination found expression in creation of numerous buildings. Facades of these buildings represent exuberant set of decorations in which ornamentals of Art Nouveau interlace with forms of different historical styles.

His works in general show us unusual riot of elements: stylised flowers, garlands, half-naked women-sirens, screaming masks, wild animals, such as lions, figures of sphinxes and monsters. Amid all of this he adds to the geometrical composition of his buildings balconies of varied forms, oriels, bizarre window embrasures..

Eisenstein's creations are like the embodiment of scream about the crisis of arts of that period of time. Masks, seen on his buildings appear to us screaming in horror and yearning for new.

Eisenstein paid limited attention to the layout of rooms and to the functionality of inner space, emphasizing only the exterior of buildings. At one time his works came under criticism - Rigans said that his use of decorations is the enormity. But in the long run people realised the beauty of this always-flowering garden made in stone.

Mikhail Eisenstein's son is the famous Russian film director Sergey Eisenstein.