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Aleksey Pisemsky

1821 - 1881

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Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (Russian: Алексе́й Феофила́ктович Пи́семский) (23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1821 – 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s. A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was responsible for the first dramatization of ordinary people in the history of Russian theatre. "Pisemsky's great narrative gift and exceptionally strong grip on reality make him one of the best Russian novelists" according to D.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksey Pisemsky has received more than 51,655 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Aleksey Pisemsky is the 3,637th most popular writer (down from 3,602nd in 2019), the 1,338th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,308th in 2019) and the 167th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksey Pisemsky ranks 3,637 out of 7,302. Before him are Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Valentin Vodnik, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Lesches, and Johann Heinrich Voss. After him are Michitsuna's mother, Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, Eiko Kadono, and Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Aleksey Pisemsky ranks 66. Before him are Clara Barton, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Octave Feuillet, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Antonio Ciseri, and Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain. After him are Josip Runjanin, Mikhail Petrashevsky, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Jane Wilde, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, and Michel Carré. Among people deceased in 1881, Aleksey Pisemsky ranks 62. Before him are Ambrose Burnside, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Tanaka Hisashige, Karl Christian Bruhns, Alexandru G. Golescu, and Ercole Dembowski. After him are Andrei Zhelyabov, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Theodor Benfey, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, and Mary Seacole.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksey Pisemsky ranks 1,338 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Shchukin (1854), Dmitry Milyutin (1816), Albert Shesternyov (1941), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), and Nadezhda Chizhova (1945). After him are Dmitry Laptev (1701), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Nur Devlet (null), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Boris Yegorov (1937), and Lev Artsimovich (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksey Pisemsky ranks 167. Before him are Alexey Troitsky (1866), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), Helena Roerich (1879), Pavel Bazhov (1879), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), and Konstantin Fedin (1892). After him are Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), and Yuli Daniel (1925).

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