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Dmitry Merezhkovsky

1866 - 1941

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский, IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj]; August 14 [O.S. August 2] 1866 – December 9, 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky – with his wife, the poet Zinaida Gippius – was twice forced into political exile. During his second exile (1918–1941) he continued publishing successful novels and gained recognition as a critic of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Merezhkovsky has received more than 168,646 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Dmitry Merezhkovsky is the 1,487th most popular writer (up from 1,582nd in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Russia (up from 582nd in 2019) and the 66th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 58.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

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Notable Works

Peter and Alexis
Fiction
1905
The life-work of Flaubert
1900
Khristos i Antikhrist
Fiction
1905
Tolstoi as man and artist
Criticism and interpretation
1902
[Christ et Antéchrist]
1902
Voskresshie bogi
Artists, Ficción, Fiction
1900

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Over the past year Dmitry Merezhkovsky has had the most page views in the with 171,611 views, followed by English (22,254), and French (4,916). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (765.79%), Bulgarian (59.05%), and Russian (57.35%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dmitry Merezhkovsky ranks 1,487 out of 7,302. Before him are Ono no Komachi, Tomi Ungerer, Avienus, Adam de la Halle, Thoinot Arbeau, and Allen Carr. After him are Lord Alfred Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, Marianne Weber, Heiner Müller, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Stéphane Hessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Dmitry Merezhkovsky ranks 38. Before him are Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leopold Mandić, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, August von Wassermann, Francesco Cilea, and Adrien de Gerlache. After him are La Goulue, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, and Franz von Bayros. Among people deceased in 1941, Dmitry Merezhkovsky ranks 58. Before him are Edwin S. Porter, Gaetano Mosca, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karin Boye, Henri Cornet, and Guido Adler. After him are Natalie of Serbia, Hjalmar Söderberg, Charles Huntziger, Émile Picard, Hans Driesch, and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Merezhkovsky ranks 530 out of 3,761. Before him are Hadji Murad (1795), Igor Ivanov (1945), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), and Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Alexander Schmorell (1917), Andrei Karlov (1954), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Konstantin Makovsky (1839).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Dmitry Merezhkovsky ranks 66. Before him are Edith Södergran (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Korney Chukovsky (1882), and Gavrila Derzhavin (1743). After him are Konstantin Simonov (1915), Nina Berberova (1901), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Alexander Belyaev (1884), John of Kronstadt (1829), and Alexander Grin (1880).

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