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Alexander Blok

1880 - 1921

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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok] ; 28 November [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Blok has received more than 378,060 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Alexander Blok is the 776th most popular writer (down from 709th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Russia (down from 248th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian poet and playwright. He is most famous for his poem "The Twelve," which is a long, symbolic poem about the Bolshevik Revolution.

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  • 380k

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  • 63.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Blok ranks 776 out of 7,302. Before him are Gregory of Narek, Antoine Galland, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Arrigo Boito, William McMaster Murdoch, and Valerius Maximus. After him are Eleanor Marx, V. S. Naipaul, Demetrius Vikelas, Sinclair Lewis, Georg Brandes, and Raymond Carver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Alexander Blok ranks 27. Before him are Paul Ehrenfest, Max Wertheimer, Otto Weininger, H. L. Mencken, Vajiravudh, and Bruno Taut. After him are Kuniaki Koiso, Vojtech Tuka, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Michel Fokine, Giuseppe Moscati, and Mohammed Alim Khan. Among people deceased in 1921, Alexander Blok ranks 17. Before him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, John Boyd Dunlop, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. After him are Matthias Erzberger, Ignác Goldziher, William II of Württemberg, Eugen Dühring, Mykola Leontovych, and `Abdu'l-Bahá.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Blok ranks 261 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Alexander Luria (1902), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), and Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669). After him are Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Mykola Azarov (1947), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Blok ranks 29. Before him are Alexander Herzen (1812), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Arthur Adamov (1908). After him are Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), and Alexander Griboyedov (1795).

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