WRITER

Gaito Gazdanov

1903 - 1971

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Gaito Gazdanov (Russian: Гайто́ (Гео́ргий) Ива́нович Газда́нов, Gaito [Georgii] Ivanovich Gazdanov; Ossetian: Гæздæнты Бæппийы фырт Гайто, Gæzdænty Bæppijy fyrt Gajto; 6 December [O.S. 23 November] 1903 – 5 December 1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian descent, who lived in Paris. Gazdanov's first stories were published in France in 1926 in Russian. His novels An Evening with Claire (1929) and The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (1948) became his most well-known works, mentioned by writers Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Vladislav Khodasevich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaito Gazdanov has received more than 78,049 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gaito Gazdanov is the 3,228th most popular writer (down from 3,183rd in 2019), the 1,195th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,146th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 3,228 out of 7,302. Before him are Kamalaśīla, Ford Madox Ford, Etgar Keret, Luo Yixiu, Kader Abdolah, and Antonio Beccadelli. After him are Claudius Salmasius, Jules Barbier, Evgeny Schwartz, John VIII of Constantinople, Arnold Bennett, and Giosafat Barbaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 161. Before him are W. V. D. Hodge, Fumiko Hayashi, Gloria Holden, Ivar Johansson, Issa Pliyev, and Anatoly Alexandrov. After him are Louis Seigner, Diana Vreeland, John Williams, Uichiro Hatta, Ella Maillart, and Felice Bonetto. Among people deceased in 1971, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 109. Before him are Viliam Široký, Fritz von Opel, Antonio Bacci, Naoya Shiga, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and Lester Germer. After him are Ignazio Giunti, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Henri Tomasi, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, and Josef Košťálek.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 1,195 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikita Simonyan (1926), Igor Chislenko (1939), Alexander Lodygin (1847), Pavel Postyshev (1887), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), and Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932). After him are Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Anatoli Bashashkin (1924), Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878), Peter Arshinov (1887), and Serge Poliakoff (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 143. Before him are Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), Zacharias Werner (1768), Olga Bergholz (1910), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), Kir Bulychev (1934), and Gennadiy Aygi (1934). After him are Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Agniya Barto (1906), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), and Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910).

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