Mikhail Mikhailovich Naryshkin was a representative of the noble Naryshkin family from the Moscow province. He was born on February 4, 1798, to Colonel Mikhail Petrovich Naryshkin and his wife Varvara Alexeyevna, daughter of Prince Alexei Nikitich Volkonsky. He had two brothers and six sisters.

His father owned significant land holdings: in 1802, he had 8,275 souls in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, and Kaluga provinces. In honor of the birth of his son Mikhail, he built a new church of Archangel Michael in the village of Odintsovo-Arkhangelskoye.

As a child, Mikhail Mikhailovich spent winters in his mother's house in Moscow on Prechistenka Boulevard and summers in the country house in the village of Odintsovo-Arkhangelskoye. He received his education at home and in 1815 attended classes at the Moscow educational institution for column drivers. In 1818 and 1819, he attended private lectures by professors A.P. Kunitsyn, K.F. German, and M.F. Solovyov in St. Petersburg.

He began his service on April 6, 1815, in the Pskov Infantry Regiment as a second lieutenant. He was a member of the Union of Welfare and the Northern Secret Society, participating in negotiations for the merger of the Northern and Southern societies in 1823. He read the draft constitution by N.M. Muravyov and was admitted to the society of V.A. Musin-Pushkin. In Moscow, he prepared a speech for the officers in December 1825.

He was arrested in Moscow on December 30, 1825, and on January 8, 1826, he was taken to St. Petersburg and then transferred to the Peter and Paul Fortress. He was convicted under the fourth category and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, which was later reduced to 8 years.

On February 2, 1827, he was sent to Siberia, arriving at the Chita prison on March 20. In September 1827, his wife joined him. In August 1828, the Decembrists were freed from shackles, and in September 1830, he arrived at the Petrovsky factory.

By decree on November 8, 1832, he was sent to settle in Kurghan, where he arrived with his wife on March 14, 1833. The Naryshkins rented a house for 25 rubles a month and later bought it for 5,650 rubles. The house became a cultural center of the city, where Decembrists, exiled Poles, and local intelligentsia gathered. Mikhail Mikhailovich engaged in gardening and founded a horse-breeding farm. He also donated books to the library of the Kurghan district school.

On June 21, 1837, he was sent as a private to the Caucasian Corps. The house in Kurghan was sold, and in 1838, the Naryshkins purchased a house in the stanitsa of Prochny Okop. Mikhail Mikhailovich was discharged from service on September 25, 1844, with the obligation to live in the village of Vysokoye near Tula. He was released from all restrictions by amnesty on August 26, 1856.

In 1859 and 1860, he traveled abroad with his wife and lived in Paris. Mikhail Mikhailovich Naryshkin passed away in Moscow on January 2, 1863, and was buried in the necropolis of the Don Monastery.