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Aleksey Koltsov

1809 - 1842

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Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Кольцо́в; October 15, 1809 – October 29, 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. Koltsov earnestly collected Russian folklore which strongly influenced his poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksey Koltsov has received more than 25,734 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Aleksey Koltsov is the 4,138th most popular writer (up from 4,485th in 2019), the 1,509th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,614th in 2019) and the 195th most popular Russian Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksey Koltsov ranks 4,138 out of 7,302. Before him are Tommaso Landolfi, Brigitte Hamann, Andrée Chedid, Dominique Fernandez, Kathy Acker, and Klaus Rifbjerg. After him are Mirza Khazar, Detlev von Liliencron, Peter Dickinson, René Wellek, Johann von Rist, and Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Aleksey Koltsov ranks 58. Before him are Johann Heinrich Blasius, Benjamin Peirce, Theodor Benfey, James David Forbes, Santiago Derqui, and Petrus Borel. After him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Nicolaas Pieneman, Karl Bodmer, Louis Meijer, and Nestor Kukolnik. Among people deceased in 1842, Aleksey Koltsov ranks 33. Before him are Nodira, Thomas Arnold, Shah Shujah Durrani, Wilhelm Gesenius, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Leona Vicario. After him are Henry Shrapnel, James Ivory, Letitia Christian Tyler, William Ellery Channing, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, and Archibald Menzies.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksey Koltsov ranks 1,509 out of 3,761. Before him are Yakov Frenkel (1894), Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Helene Fischer (1984), Boris Eikhenbaum (1886), and Olga Preobrajenska (1871). After him are Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Edwin Linkomies (1894), Irina Allegrova (1952), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Alexander Karpinsky (1846), and Solomon Lozovsky (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksey Koltsov ranks 195. Before him are Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Apollon Maykov (1821), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), Marietta Shaginyan (1888), Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842). After him are Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), Veijo Meri (1928), Osip Brik (1888), Dmitry Furmanov (1891), and Daniil Granin (1919).

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