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Alexey Troitsky

1866 - 1942

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Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий; March 14, 1866 – August 1942; also Alexei, Troitzky, Troitzki) was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies (Seirawan 2003:91). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexey Troitsky has received more than 39,078 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexey Troitsky is the 3,834th most popular writer (down from 3,721st in 2019), the 1,382nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,231st in 2019) and the 180th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexey Troitsky ranks 3,834 out of 5,755Before him are Jean Clair, Nicolas Bouvier, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, and Girolamo de Rada. After him are Nossis, Annemarie Selinko, Oskar Maria Graf, Kalhana, Minette Walters, and Irakli Abashidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Alexey Troitsky ranks 99Before him are Adolf Meyer, Alexander Protopopov, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Carl Gustav Witt, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and Euclides da Cunha. After him are Tilemachos Karakalos, Carl Theodor Zahle, Antonio Luna, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Ludwig Aschoff, and Avetis Aharonian. Among people deceased in 1942, Alexey Troitsky ranks 151Before him are Renia Spiegel, August von Gödrich, Eusebio Ayala, Romà Forns, Nevile Henderson, and Hugo Distler. After him are Ants Piip, Frank Churchill, Juhan Kukk, Mahadev Desai, José Díaz, and Refik Saydam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexey Troitsky ranks 1,382 out of 3,262Before him are Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Daniil Medvedev (1996), and Joseph Bové (1784). After him are Oleg Gazmanov (1951), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), and Vitaly Churkin (1952).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexey Troitsky ranks 180Before him are Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Dmitry Furmanov (1891), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), and Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932). After him are Innokenty Annensky (1855), Osip Brik (1888), Apollon Maykov (1821), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), and Vladislav Khodasevich (1886).