WRITER

Henri Troyat

1911 - 2007

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Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; 1 November [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Troyat has received more than 114,479 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Henri Troyat is the 1,051st most popular writer (down from 982nd in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 360th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Russian Writer.

Henri Troyat is most famous for his biographies of Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henri Troyat ranks 1,051 out of 7,302Before him are Thomas Malory, Emil Ludwig, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Paul Bourget, Emanuel Schikaneder, and Giambattista Marino. After him are Tess Gerritsen, Ján Kollár, Martin Andersen Nexø, Zhuanxu, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Ernst Barlach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Henri Troyat ranks 52Before him are Bruno Kreisky, Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, Cantinflas, J. L. Austin, and Vincent Price. After him are Samuel Reshevsky, Robert Taylor, Mahalia Jackson, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Alfred Naujocks, and Karel Čurda. Among people deceased in 2007, Henri Troyat ranks 37Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, Momofuku Ando, and Alan MacDiarmid. After him are Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Lois Maxwell, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Paul Watzlawick.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Henri Troyat ranks 373 out of 3,761Before him are Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Rinat Dasayev (1957), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), and Viktor Kulikov (1921). After him are Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Eduard Khil (1934), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), and Nikolai Leskov (1831).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Henri Troyat ranks 40Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803). After him are Nikolai Leskov (1831), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), and Bulat Okudzhava (1924).