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Helena Blavatsky

1831 - 1891

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née Hahn von Rottenstern; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of Theosophy as a belief system. Born into an aristocratic family in Yekaterinoslav, then in the Russian Empire (now Dnipro in Ukraine), Blavatsky traveled widely around the empire as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helena Blavatsky has received more than 3,446,650 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Helena Blavatsky is the 5th most popular occultist, the 16th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Occultist.

Helena Blavatsky was a Russian-born author and occultist who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Her most famous work is "The Secret Doctrine," which was published in 1888.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Helena Blavatsky ranks 5 out of 41. Before her are Nostradamus, Grigori Rasputin, John Dee, and Baba Vanga. After her are Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Helena Blavatsky ranks 3. Before her are James Clerk Maxwell, and Frederick III, German Emperor. After her are Sitting Bull, James A. Garfield, Emperor Kōmei, John Stith Pemberton, Xianfeng Emperor, Richard Dedekind, Cheoljong of Joseon, Savitribai Phule, and Leo von Caprivi. Among people deceased in 1891, Helena Blavatsky ranks 4. Before her are Arthur Rimbaud, Nikolaus Otto, and Georges Seurat. After her are Herman Melville, Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Helena Blavatsky ranks 16 out of 1,365. Before her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), and Taras Shevchenko (1814). After her are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), and Stefania Turkewich (1898).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Ukraine

Among occultists born in Ukraine, Helena Blavatsky ranks 1. 

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