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Alexander Odoevsky

1802 - 1839

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Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Одо́евский, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Odoevskiy, November 26 (December 8), 1802 – October 10 (22) or August 15 (27), 1839) was a Russian poet and playwright, one of the leading figures of the 1825 Decembrist revolt. One of Odoevsky's lines, "Iz iskry vozgoritsa plamya" (Из искры возгорится пламя, One spark will start a flame), has come down in history as a long-lasting slogan of the Russian revolutionary movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Odoevsky has received more than 19,915 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alexander Odoevsky is the 5,178th most popular writer (down from 4,758th in 2019), the 1,935th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,738th in 2019) and the 237th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 5,178 out of 7,302. Before him are Elinor Glyn, Anna Brigadere, Furqat, Philippe Néricault Destouches, John Kaminiates, and Adelaide Anne Procter. After him are Tony Duvert, Ruth Klüger, Enric Valor i Vives, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Ernie Pyle, and Grant Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 54. Before him are Robert Chambers, Nicholas Wiseman, David Octavius Hill, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Dorothea Dix, and Manuel María Lombardini. After him are Charles-Mathias Simons, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Édouard Ménétries, Andrei Stackenschneider, and Richard Thomas Lowe. Among people deceased in 1839, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 40. Before him are Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, Yuriy Venelin, Hendrik Voogd, Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel, Benjamin Morrell, and José María Heredia y Heredia. After him are Jens Esmark, William Beechey, Thomas Bibb, Allan Cunningham, and Sybil Ludington.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 1,935 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Milyutin (1818), Lev Alburt (1945), Viktoriya Tokareva (1937), Alexander Rosenbaum (1951), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), and Yekaterina Gradova (1946). After him are Konstantin Yuon (1875), Vladimir Kesarev (1930), Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Fazu Aliyeva (1932), Nikolai Golovanov (1891), and Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 237. Before him are Alexander Vampilov (1937), Nestor Kukolnik (1809), Platon Oyunsky (1893), Mark Dvoretsky (1947), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), and Viktoriya Tokareva (1937). After him are Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Nikolai Pogodin (1900), Alexander Shishkov (1754), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Alexander Ablesimov (1742), and Vladimir Makanin (1937).

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