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Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 - 1881

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fyodor Dostoevsky has received more than 10,152,531 page views. His biography is available in 172 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 166 in 2019). Fyodor Dostoevsky is the 6th most popular writer (down from 5th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Writer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is most famous for his novel Crime and Punishment.

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  • 89.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 172

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 6 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Edgar Allan Poe. After him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, and Victor Hugo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, Lola Montez, Elizabeth Blackwell, Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, and Richard Francis Burton. Among people deceased in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Alexander II of Russia, Modest Mussorgsky, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Billy the Kid, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, and Auguste Mariette.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 3 out of 3,761. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), and Vladimir Lenin (1870). After him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Vladimir Putin (1952), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks 1. After him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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