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Alexander Pushkin

1799 - 1837

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Pushkin has received more than 5,265,356 page views. His biography is available in 162 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 157 in 2019). Alexander Pushkin is the 36th most popular writer (up from 37th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Russia (up from 17th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Pushkin is most famous for his poetry. He is considered to be the father of Russian literature.

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  • 81.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 162

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Pushkin ranks 36 out of 7,302. Before him are Agatha Christie, Horace, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, and Selma Lagerlöf. After him are Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, and Émile Zola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Alexander Pushkin ranks 2. Before him is Honoré de Balzac. After him are Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1837, Alexander Pushkin ranks 2. Before him is William IV of the United Kingdom. After him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Charles Fourier, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, John Constable, Giacomo Leopardi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, and John Field.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Pushkin ranks 15 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), and Grigori Rasputin (1869). After him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ivan Pavlov (1849), and Ayn Rand (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Pushkin ranks 4. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), and Anton Chekhov (1860). After him are Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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