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Alexander Danilovich Menshikov

1673 - 1729

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Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дани́лович Ме́ншиков; 16 November [O.S. 6 November] 1673 – 23 November [O.S. 12 November] 1729) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Russian Empire and Duke of Izhora (Duke of Ingria), Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Cosel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov has received more than 254,983 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 37 in 2019). Alexander Danilovich Menshikov is the 3,649th most popular politician (down from 3,394th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Russia (down from 349th in 2019) and the 108th most popular Russian Politician.

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov was a Russian statesman and a close advisor to Catherine the Great. He was one of the most important figures in the early years of the Russian Empire. Menshikov was the governor-general of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and he presided over the Senate. Menshikov was also a noted art collector.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov ranks 3,649 out of 19,576. Before him are Shahrbaraz, Louise of France, Philip III of Navarre, Anitta, Canute I of Sweden, and Afonso I of Kongo. After him are Enmerkar, Henri Christophe, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Şehzade Bayezid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1673, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov ranks 8. Before him are Dimitrie Cantemir, Louis de Montfort, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Rosalba Carriera, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, and Alessandro Marcello. After him are Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, and Johann Conrad Dippel. Among people deceased in 1729, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Newcomen, John Law, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jacob Roggeveen, and Jean Meslier. After him are John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Johann David Heinichen, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Louis Antoine de Noailles, and Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov ranks 354 out of 3,761. Before him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Grigory Orlov (1734), Valentin Serov (1865), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), and Nikolai Rubinstein (1835). After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Ivan Silayev (1930), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), and Mengu-Timur (1235).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov ranks 108. Before him are Simeon of Moscow (1316), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Grigory Orlov (1734), and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875). After him are Ivan Silayev (1930), Mengu-Timur (1235), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), and Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924).

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