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Denis Davydov

1784 - 1839

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Denis Vasilyevich Davydov (Russian: Дени́с Васи́льевич Давы́дов, pronounced [dʲɪˈnʲis vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ dɐˈvɨdəf] ; 27 July [O.S. 16 July] 1784 – 4 May [O.S. 22 April] 1839) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado. He used events from his own life to illustrate such poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denis Davydov has received more than 101,403 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Denis Davydov is the 3,051st most popular writer (down from 2,838th in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from Russia (down from 957th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular Russian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Denis Davydov ranks 3,051 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert Bly, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Charles-Louis Havas, Arno Schmidt, Michel Ocelot, and Suman Pokhrel. After him are Maksym Rylsky, Richard Hammond, Leone Ginzburg, Anselm Grün, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Charles Grandison Finney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Denis Davydov ranks 36. Before him are Fructuoso Rivera, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, François-Joseph Fétis, Duke George of Oldenburg, William Buckland, and Archduke Louis of Austria. After him are Bagyidaw, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Leopoldo Nobili, Christopher Hansteen, Joseph Bové, and Charles Dupin. Among people deceased in 1839, Denis Davydov ranks 26. Before him are William Murdoch, Lady Hester Stanhope, Gaspard de Prony, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, and Dorothea von Schlegel. After him are Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, Maurice de Guérin, Giuseppe Valadier, Adolphe Nourrit, Joseph-François Michaud, and José María Heredia y Heredia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Denis Davydov ranks 1,085 out of 3,262. Before him are Pyotr Saltykov (1698), Nikita Simonyan (1926), Gennady Padalka (1958), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Pavel Postyshev (1887), and Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851). After him are Erkki Melartin (1875), Carl Jaenisch (1813), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), and Konstantin Thon (1794).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Denis Davydov ranks 132. Before him are Igor Gouzenko (1919), Mikhail Prishvin (1873), Kir Bulychev (1934), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), and Boris Polevoy (1908). After him are Yulian Semyonov (1931), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), and Alexander Sumarokov (1717).

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