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Alexander Ostrovsky

1823 - 1886

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Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1823 – 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1886) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Ostrovsky has received more than 199,414 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alexander Ostrovsky is the 1,204th most popular writer (down from 993rd in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from Russia (down from 328th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Ostrovsky is most famous for his play The Storm.

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  • 200k

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  • 59.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Ostrovsky ranks 1,204 out of 5,755. Before him are Khaqani, Dan Simmons, David Grossman, Shammai, Dean Koontz, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec. After him are Timaeus of Locri, Pierre de Marivaux, Achilles Tatius, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aristophanes of Byzantium, and James Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Alexander Ostrovsky ranks 19. Before him are John Sherman, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Mihailo Obrenović, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and Charles I of Württemberg. After him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, John Russell Hind, Gotthold Eisenstein, Konstantin Ushinsky, Joseph Monier, and Théodore de Banville. Among people deceased in 1886, Alexander Ostrovsky ranks 9. Before him are Ludwig II of Bavaria, Emily Dickinson, Leopold von Ranke, Chester A. Arthur, John Deere, and Amilcare Ponchielli. After him are Ilya Ulyanov, Alexander Butlerov, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Asher Brown Durand, and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Ostrovsky ranks 438 out of 3,262. Before him are Edith Södergran (1892), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Valery Gergiev (1953), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Igor Ivanov (1945), and Lyubov Popova (1889). After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), False Dmitry II (1600), Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), and Lev Gumilyov (1912).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Ostrovsky ranks 52. Before him are Nikolai Leskov (1831), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), and Edith Södergran (1892). After him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Andrei Platonov (1899), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899).

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