It is not known where Mikhail, his wife Xi and his only son Josh came from, but one day they turned up at the Crosby's doorstep, asking if they had a room available in their small trailer house. Mikhail had tried to find a home for his family before they came to Riverview, but was unable to because of his low income. Freshly young-adult married couple, Heather and Odin Crosby said they had one tiny room to spare. Mikhail and his wife Xi were just two days away from their deaths from old age, so it was apparent that they moved to Riverview because they wanted their son Josh, a tall and good looking, half asian, young-adult to have a brighter future than the one that was planned for him before they moved.
Mikhail and his wife Xi passed away at the same time, leaving a grieving Josh behind to live in a tiny room with his newfound friends, Odin and Heather. Because of his short stay at the Crosby's, Josh had a high relationship with both of them which would later play out in his adult-life. Josh earned money and shortly after his parents' death moved out into a small house in the center of their neighbourhood town.
Mikhail is buried next to his wife and (future family to be) Timothy-James Uptown & his loving wife, Felicity in Riverview's big Old Town Cemetery .