Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tipu ake a Bakunin i Pryamukhino, he kainga whanau i Tver Governorate. Mai i te 1840, i ako ia i Moscow, katahi ka haere ki Berlin me te tumanako kia uru atu ki te wananga. I muri mai i Paris, ka tutaki ia ki a Karl Marx me Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, i tino awe i a ia. Na te nui haere o te tino kaha o Bakunin i whakamutu i nga tumanakohanga mo te umanga whakaako. I peia ia i Wīwī mō te whakahe ki te noho a Rūhia ki Pori. I te tau 1849, i mauheretia ia i Dresden mo tana whakauru ki te tutu Czech o te tau 1848 ka peia ki Russia, i herea ia i mua i Saint Petersburg, ka noho ia ki te whare herehere o Shlisselburg mai i te tau 1854 ka tukuna ki Siberia i te tau 1857. I mawhiti ia ma Japan ki te United States ka haere ki Ranana, i reira ia i mahi tahi ai me Alexander Herzen i runga i te niupepa "Kolokol" ("The Bell"). I te tau 1863, ka wehe atu a Bakunin ki te uru atu ki te
whakaoho i roto i Poland, engari kihai i taea e ia te tae i te reira, a hei utu i pau te wa i roto i te Switzerland me Itari.