RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Avvakum

1620 - 1682

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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/21 – 14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avvakum has received more than 234,936 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Avvakum is the 832nd most popular religious figure (up from 877th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 403rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Avvakums by language

Over the past year Avvakum has had the most page views in the with 109,513 views, followed by English (35,176), and Spanish (3,146). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovak (265.36%), Uzbek (195.16%), and Serbian (168.48%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Avvakum ranks 832 out of 3,187. Before him are Saint Margaret of Scotland, Antipope Ursicinus, Waraqah ibn Nawfal, Andrea Amati, Antipope Boniface VII, and Lucian of Antioch. After him are Al-Qurtubi, Peter of Alcantara, Eulalia of Barcelona, Antipope Gregory VIII, Theodore Stratelates, and Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Avvakum ranks 4. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Ninon de l'Enclos, and Edme Mariotte. After him are Aelbert Cuyp, Pierre Puget, Jean Picard, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, John Graunt, and François Bernier. Among people deceased in 1682, Avvakum ranks 9. Before him are Feodor III of Russia, 5th Dalai Lama, Evliya Çelebi, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jacob Kettler, and Johann Joachim Becher. After him are Baldassare Longhena, Alessandro Stradella, Jean Picard, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Thomas Browne, and Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Avvakum ranks 363 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Mengu-Timur (1235), Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), and Irving Berlin (1888). After him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), and Rinat Dasayev (1957).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Avvakum ranks 9. Before him are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Eugen Sandow (1867), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), and Sergius of Radonezh (1314). After him are Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Alexander Schmorell (1917), Tode Mongke (1282), and Nicholas of Japan (1836).

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