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Dmitry Likhachov

1906 - 1999

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature. He was revered as "the last of old St Petersburgers", and as "a guardian of national culture". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Likhachov has received more than 75,114 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dmitry Likhachov is the 2,859th most popular writer (up from 3,223rd in 2019), the 1,060th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,166th in 2019) and the 126th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 2,859 out of 7,302. Before him are Phlegon of Tralles, Aleksander Fredro, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Irvine Welsh, Leonid Leonov, and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. After him are Anne McCaffrey, Bernardo Dovizi, Maurice Sendak, Ferenc Kazinczy, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Kostis Palamas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 157. Before him are Alexander Gode, Pietro Serantoni, H. C. Hansen, Endre Kabos, Ango Sakaguchi, and Andrei Kirilenko. After him are Tribhuvan of Nepal, Francisco Ayala, Marian Spychalski, Eddie Albert, Jean Leray, and Raymond Sommer. Among people deceased in 1999, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 106. Before him are Moondog, Dennis W. Sciama, Oscar Cullmann, Jean Guitton, Petr Shelokhonov, and Hendrick Chin A Sen. After him are Dennis Viollet, Pierre Bézier, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Morris West, Karekin I, and Nahum Stelmach.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 1,060 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Orlov (1924), Endel Tulving (1927), Lev Oborin (1907), Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824), Andrei Kirilenko (1906), and Leonid Leonov (1899). After him are Martti Talvela (1935), Viktor Zolotov (1954), Joseph M. Schenck (1876), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), Natalya Estemirova (1958), and Ludmila Savelyeva (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 126. Before him are Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Stasov (1824), Franz Overbeck (1837), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Denis Davydov (1784), and Leonid Leonov (1899). After him are Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Lev Rubinstein (1947), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Andrei Amalrik (1938), and Sergey Solovyov (1820).

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