WRITER

Gavrila Derzhavin

1743 - 1816

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Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (Russian: Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, IPA: [ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn] ; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gavrila Derzhavin has received more than 127,296 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Gavrila Derzhavin is the 1,405th most popular writer (down from 1,395th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Russia and the 65th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

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  • 6.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dacha Life
2013

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 1,405 out of 7,302. Before him are Siegfried Lenz, Robert Bloch, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Korney Chukovsky, Kâtip Çelebi, and Maj Sjöwall. After him are Jaan Kross, Jules de Goncourt, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Georg Heym, Philippe Soupault, and Liang Qichao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 18. Before him are Nicolai Abildgaard, Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. After him are Joseph Banks, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and William Paley. Among people deceased in 1816, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 10. Before him are Francisco de Miranda, Frederick I of Württemberg, Pierre Augereau, Adam Ferguson, Roger Ducos, and Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, François-André Vincent, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Christiane Vulpius, and Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 501 out of 3,761. Before him are Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Oleg Protopopov (1932), and Korney Chukovsky (1882). After him are Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Mikhail of Tver (1271), Ivan Bilibin (1876), Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850), and Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 65. Before him are Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Edith Södergran (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), and Korney Chukovsky (1882). After him are Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Nina Berberova (1901), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Alexander Belyaev (1884), and John of Kronstadt (1829).

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