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Alexandre Benois

1870 - 1960

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Alexandre (Alexander) Nikolayevich Benois (Russian: Александр Николаевич Бенуа, romanized: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Benua; 3 May [O.S. 21 April] 1870 – 9 February 1960) was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir iskusstva ("World of Art"), an art movement and magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Benois has received more than 166,039 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alexandre Benois is the 1,800th most popular writer (up from 1,864th in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 620th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 56.11

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexandre Benois ranks 1,800 out of 5,755Before him are I. L. Peretz, Donald E. Westlake, Konstantin Paustovsky, David Burliuk, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Lilya Brik. After him are Didymus Chalcenterus, Abbot Oliba, Brian Aldiss, Catherine of Bologna, Sebastian Haffner, and Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Alexandre Benois ranks 56Before him are Michael Rostovtzeff, Princess Henriette of Belgium, Vladimir Purishkevich, Helge von Koch, Florent Schmitt, and Vítězslav Novák. After him are Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Kilpin, François Georges-Picot, Reginald Lee, Georges Claude, and Kitaro Nishida. Among people deceased in 1960, Alexandre Benois ranks 54Before him are Yan Xishan, Paul Abraham, Antonie Pannekoek, Vicki Baum, Pierre Reverdy, and José Antonio Aguirre. After him are Abram Ioffe, James Montgomery Flagg, Edwin Fischer, John B. Kelly Sr., Georges Claude, and Maurice de Broglie.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandre Benois ranks 662 out of 3,262Before him are Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Lilya Brik (1891), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Viktor Chernov (1873), and Yaroslav of Tver (1230). After him are Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), Alexei Savrasov (1830), Prince Paul of Württemberg (1785), Valery Bryusov (1873), Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), and Anatoly Lukyanov (1930).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexandre Benois ranks 82Before him are John of Kronstadt (1829), Vasily Shukshin (1929), Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), Nina Berberova (1901), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), and Lilya Brik (1891). After him are Valery Bryusov (1873), Laila Halme (1934), Zinaida Gippius (1869), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), and Countess of Ségur (1799).