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WRITER

Alexander Bestuzhev

1797 - 1837

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Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бесту́жев, IPA: [bʲɪˈstuʐɨf] ; (3 November [O.S. 23 October] 1797 – 19 June [O.S. 7 June] 1837), was a Russian writer and Decembrist. After the Decembrist revolt he was sent into exile to Caucasus where Russian Empire was waging the war against the Circassians. There writing under the pseudonym Marlinsky (Russian: Марли́нский, IPA: [mɐrˈlʲinskʲɪj] ) he became known as a romantic poet, short story writer and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Bestuzhev has received more than 35,705 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alexander Bestuzhev is the 3,205th most popular writer (down from 3,065th in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,024th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 3,205 out of 5,755Before him are Olha Kobylianska, Cristina Peri Rossi, Arctinus of Miletus, Evgeny Schwartz, Rupert Brooke, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. After him are Wallace Stevens, Zülfü Livaneli, Zacharias Werner, Bruce Sterling, Hans Erich Nossack, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 56Before him are Paweł Strzelecki, Karl Otfried Müller, Gotthilf Hagen, Innocent of Alaska, Ramón Castilla, and Heinrich Kuhl. After him are Anthony Panizzi, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Jean Victoir Audouin, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, and Michel Garicoïts. Among people deceased in 1837, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 32Before him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Marguerite Gérard, François-Xavier Fabre, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, John Latham, and Yuri Lisyansky. After him are John Soane, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Valentino Fioravanti, Joseph Grimaldi, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, and Diego Portales.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 1,153 out of 3,262Before him are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), Vasily Lazarev (1928), Gamzat-bek (1789), and Evgeny Schwartz (1896). After him are Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Zacharias Werner (1768), Vladimir Shadrin (1948), Inna Churikova (1943), Vasily Mishin (1917), and Lyudmila Zykina (1929).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 141Before him are Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), and Evgeny Schwartz (1896). After him are Zacharias Werner (1768), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Dmitry Likhachov (1906), Şihabetdin Märcani (1818), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), and Gennadiy Aygi (1934).