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 37,663 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander Bestuzhev is the 3,670th most popular writer (down from 3,193rd in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,150th in 2019) and the 169th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 38k

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  • 51.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 3,670 out of 7,302. Before him are Antero de Quental, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Nagarjun, Philoxenus of Cythera, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, and Athenaeus Mechanicus. After him are Robert Jungk, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, John Flanagan, Helen Churchill Candee, Gyula Krúdy, and Gaston Rébuffat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 60. Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Paweł Strzelecki, Ramón Castilla, Heinrich Kuhl, Anthony Panizzi, and Michel Garicoïts. After him are Mariano Paredes, Andrew Smith, Edward Turner Bennett, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, and Johann Andreas Wagner. Among people deceased in 1837, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 33. Before him are François-Xavier Fabre, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Yuri Lisyansky, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, and Valentino Fioravanti. After him are Agustín Eyzaguirre, Herman of Alaska, John Soane, Diego Portales, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Étienne-Gaspard Robert.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 1,347 out of 3,761. Before him are Nur Devlet (null), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Boris Yegorov (1937), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), and Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868). After him are Endel Puusepp (1909), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Vladimir Melanin (1933), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), and Nilus of Sora (1433).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 169. Before him are Helena Roerich (1879), Pavel Bazhov (1879), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Konstantin Fedin (1892), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), and Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936). After him are Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Yuli Daniel (1925), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), and Teffi (1872).

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