WRITER

Andrei Platonov

1899 - 1951

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Andrei Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Плато́нов, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəvʲɪtɕ plɐˈtonəf]; né Klimentov [Климе́нтов]; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism which was not in line with the dominant socialist realism doctrine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Platonov has received more than 300,694 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Andrei Platonov is the 1,238th most popular writer (down from 1,229th in 2019), the 439th most popular biography from Russia (up from 451st in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 300k

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  • 60.19

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrei Platonov ranks 1,238 out of 7,302. Before him are David Irving, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Blaise Cendrars, Bhartṛhari, Boris Pahor, and Radoje Domanović. After him are Shammai, Vittorio Alfieri, Yosa Buson, Salawat Yulayev, John Dryden, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Andrei Platonov ranks 56. Before him are Charles Boyer, Henri Michaux, P. L. Travers, Louis Hjelmslev, Lao She, and Lev Kuleshov. After him are Alma Reville, Fritz Bayerlein, Brassaï, Ludwig Guttmann, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Philipp Bouhler. Among people deceased in 1951, Andrei Platonov ranks 29. Before him are Ivanoe Bonomi, Óscar Carmona, Oswald Pohl, William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, and Charles G. Dawes. After him are Empress Teimei, Sadegh Hedayat, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Kim Chaek, Émile Chartier, and Erich Naumann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Platonov ranks 439 out of 3,761. Before him are Andre Geim (1958), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Yury Luzhkov (1936), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), and Lydia Litvyak (1921). After him are Mehmed I Giray (1465), Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691), Dmitry Utkin (1970), Salawat Yulayev (1754), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), and False Dmitry II (1600).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrei Platonov ranks 51. Before him are Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Daniil Kharms (1905), and Alexander Ostrovsky (1823). After him are Salawat Yulayev (1754), Elsa Triolet (1896), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Alexander Radishchev (1749), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943).

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