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Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter

1814 - 1841

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His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 87 in 2024). Mikhail Lermontov is the 345th most popular writer (up from 356th in 2024), the 112th most popular biography from Russia (up from 125th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Writer.

Mikhail Lermontov is most famous for his poem "The Death of a Poet."

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Mikhail Lermontov ranks #112 among 4,534 people in Pantheon born in Russia, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Mikhail Lermontov's biography appears in 86 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 97% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 345 out of 7,707. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ève Curie, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Maurice Leblanc, Arion, and Archilochus. After him are Amos Oz, Eyvind Johnson, Paul Valéry, Simonides of Ceos, Marguerite Duras, and Peter Drucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, and Taras Shevchenko. After him are Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1841, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 3. Before him are Nicolas Appert, and Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are William Henry Harrison, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Caroline of Baden, George Green, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, and Félix Savart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 112 out of 4,534. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926). After him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), and Ivan VI of Russia (1740).

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Among Writers In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 15. Before him are Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884).

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