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WRITER

Ivan Shmelyov

1873 - 1950

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Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev and Chmelov) (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow. He was a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Shmelyov has received more than 40,491 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ivan Shmelyov is the 4,153rd most popular writer (up from 4,230th in 2019), the 1,471st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,447th in 2019) and the 196th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Shmelyov ranks 4,153 out of 5,755Before him are Rodolfo Walsh, Fedde Schurer, Pepetela, Paul Du Chaillu, Platon Oyunsky, and Wen Yiduo. After him are Sarah Kane, Alan Paton, Ion Druță, Mary Norton, François Cavanna, and Jorge Ibargüengoitia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Ivan Shmelyov ranks 124Before him are Nikolay Bauman, Wojciech Korfanty, Hamida Javanshir, Antonín Švehla, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, and Rudolf Tobias. After him are Edwin Flack, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Frank Wild, Rosa Sensat, Oscar von Sydow, and Ivan Babushkin. Among people deceased in 1950, Ivan Shmelyov ranks 124Before him are Recep Peker, László Cseh, Théodore Steeg, Joanni Perronet, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, and Lothrop Stoddard. After him are Albert Ehrenstein, Alexander Tairov, Frederic Lewy, Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Gmelin, and Frederick Twort.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Shmelyov ranks 1,471 out of 3,262Before him are Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Gavriil Kachalin (1911), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930), Alexander Pichushkin (1974), and Platon Oyunsky (1893). After him are Zara Dolukhanova (1918), Oleg Vidov (1943), Hermann Goetz (1840), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Mikhail Katkov (1818), and Sandra Kalniete (1952).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Shmelyov ranks 196Before him are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), Yury Trifonov (1925), Alexander Serafimovich (1863), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), and Platon Oyunsky (1893). After him are Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Andreï Makine (1957), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Vera Panova (1905), Sophia Parnok (1885), and Igor Severyanin (1887).