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Alexander Radishchev

1749 - 1802

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Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев; 31 August [O.S. 20 August] 1749 – 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1802) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with his 1790 novel Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Radishchev has received more than 131,255 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Alexander Radishchev is the 1,457th most popular writer (down from 1,403rd in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 455th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Radishchev ranks 1,457 out of 5,755Before him are Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, J. G. Ballard, Vasil Bykaŭ, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, and Quintus Smyrnaeus. After him are Philip José Farmer, Ruy González de Clavijo, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Fritz Gerlich, Jean Chapelain, and Joseph Mohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Alexander Radishchev ranks 16Before him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, and Abraham Gottlob Werner. After him are Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Georg Joseph Vogler, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Martin Vahl, Charles James Fox, and Princess Louisa of Great Britain. Among people deceased in 1802, Alexander Radishchev ranks 11Before him are Martha Washington, Ludovico Manin, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, and Prince Henry of Prussia. After him are Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Franz Aepinus, Jens Juel, Giuseppe Sarti, Jurij Vega, and George Romney.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Radishchev ranks 522 out of 3,262Before him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Vasily Chapayev (1887), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Boris Pugo (1937), and Viktor Tsoi (1962). After him are Sheikh Mansur (1750), Werner Kempf (1886), Anund Gårdske (1004), Lauri Kristian Relander (1883), Mikhail Tomsky (1880), and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Radishchev ranks 65Before him are Alexander Grin (1880), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Daniil Kharms (1905), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), and Mukhtar Auezov (1897). After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Alexander Belyaev (1884), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), and Afanasy Fet (1820).