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Cyril Toumanoff

1913 - 1997

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Cyril Leo Toumanoff (Georgian: კირილ თუმანოვი; Russian: Кирилл Львович Туманов; 10 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Georgian-American historian, and academic genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Byzantine Empire. Born in the Russian Empire into a princely family, Toumanoff escaped to the United States after the Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyril Toumanoff has received more than 70,602 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Cyril Toumanoff is the 390th most popular historian (down from 350th in 2019), the 1,697th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,638th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Historian.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 390 out of 561. Before him are Fenestella, Heinrich von Sybel, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Sheila Fitzpatrick, İbrahim Peçevi, and Stepanos Asoghik. After him are Dino Compagni, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Serhii Plokhy, Michael Aris, Taner Akçam, and Jerónimo Zurita y Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 237. Before him are Per Borten, Milivoj Ašner, Ferenc Csik, Félicien Marceau, Ranko Marinković, and Pierre Daninos. After him are John Mikaelsson, Martial Célestin, Morton Gould, Taos Amrouche, Josef Stroh, and George Abecassis. Among people deceased in 1997, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 207. Before him are Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Agnieszka Osiecka, Denver Pyle, Norris Bradbury, Roger Marche, and Bobby Helms. After him are Marshall Applewhite, Ondino Viera, Ben Hogan, David Doyle, Ivan Yarygin, and Charles Hallahan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 1,697 out of 3,761. Before him are Geydar Dzhemal (1947), Alexander Brullov (1798), Vladimir Bortko (1946), Aleksey Remizov (1877), Magomedali Magomedov (1930), and Anahit Tsitsikian (1926). After him are Fyodor Khitruk (1917), Barys Kit (1910), Agnes Miegel (1879), Anatoli Ilyin (1931), Valeri Zolotukhin (1941), and Yury Grigorovich (1927).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Boris Rybakov (1908). After him are Serhii Plokhy (1957), Olena Apanovych (1919), Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Aron Gurevich (1924), and Timofey Granovsky (1813).

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