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Anton Chekhov

1860 - 1904

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and physician. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Chekhov has received more than 5,985,327 page views. His biography is available in 157 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 150 in 2019). Anton Chekhov is the 22nd most popular writer, the 11th most popular biography from Russia (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Writer.

Anton Chekhov is most famous for his short stories.

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  • 83.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 157

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anton Chekhov ranks 22 out of 5,755. Before him are Jules Verne, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Molière, and Agatha Christie. After him are Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, Anne Frank, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Rumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Anton Chekhov ranks 1. After him are Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Kanō Jigorō, Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, and William Jennings Bryan. Among people deceased in 1904, Anton Chekhov ranks 1. After him are Antonín Dvořák, Theodor Herzl, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Henry Morton Stanley, Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Eadweard Muybridge, and Gabriel Tarde.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 11 out of 3,262. Before him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), and Boris Yeltsin (1931). After him are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Grigori Rasputin (1869), and Alexander Pushkin (1799).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821) and Leo Tolstoy (1828). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Isaac Asimov (1920), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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