WRITER

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 144,371 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Alexander Radishchev is the 1,294th most popular writer (up from 1,454th in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 521st in 2019) and the 55th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 59.85

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Radishchev ranks 1,294 out of 7,302. Before him are Cratinus, Thomas Chatterton, Poul Anderson, Alma Reville, Victor Serge, and Jakob Wassermann. After him are Matthew Lewis, P. G. Wodehouse, Javier Marías, A. E. van Vogt, John Tzetzes, and Neil Gaiman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Alexander Radishchev ranks 16. Before him are Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Abraham Gottlob Werner, and Vittorio Alfieri. After him are Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Martin Vahl, Georg Joseph Vogler, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Charles James Fox, and Christian August Lorentzen. Among people deceased in 1802, Alexander Radishchev ranks 8. Before him are Erasmus Darwin, Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Martha Washington, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, and Ludovico Manin. After him are Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince Henry of Prussia, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Jens Juel, Jurij Vega, and Giuseppe Sarti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Radishchev ranks 463 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Nikulin (1921), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Leonid Rogozov (1934), Vasily Bartold (1869), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Lyubov Popova (1889). After him are Naina Yeltsina (1932), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097), and Shamil Basayev (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Radishchev ranks 55. Before him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Andrei Platonov (1899), Salawat Yulayev (1754), Elsa Triolet (1896), and Alexander Afanasyev (1826). After him are Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Edith Södergran (1892), and Viktor Suvorov (1947).

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