1871 - 1919
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age literary period. Andreyev's style combines the elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Andreyev has received more than 220,711 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Leonid Andreyev is the 1,060th most popular writer (up from 1,145th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Russia (down from 377th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Writer.
Leonid Andreyev is most famous for writing the short story "The Red Laugh" in which he explores the idea of how laughter can be a sign of madness and evil.
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Among writers, Leonid Andreyev ranks 1,060 out of 5,755. Before him are Adalbert Stifter, Velimir Khlebnikov, Erskine Caldwell, Joan Didion, Guido Cavalcanti, and Robert Graves. After him are Adalberon, Irwin Shaw, Branislav Nušić, Cormac McCarthy, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and W. H. Auden.
1805 - 1868
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 1,054
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 1,055
1903 - 1987
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 1,056
1934 - 2021
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 1,057
1258 - 1300
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,058
1895 - 1985
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,059
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,060
947 - 1030
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,061
1913 - 1984
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 1,062
1864 - 1938
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 1,063
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,064
1899 - 1976
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 1,065
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,066
Among people born in 1871, Leonid Andreyev ranks 31. Before him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Stjepan Radić, Cordell Hull, Stephen Crane, Ernst Zermelo, and William Stern. After him are Walter Bradford Cannon, Lyonel Feininger, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Willem Mengelberg, Nicolae Iorga, and Christian Morgenstern. Among people deceased in 1919, Leonid Andreyev ranks 27. Before him are Ismail Qemali, L. Frank Baum, Madam C. J. Walker, Kurt Eisner, Johannes Rydberg, and Prince John of the United Kingdom. After him are Henry Gantt, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, Guido von List, Georg von Hertling, and Sophia Tolstaya.
1871 - 1942
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 25
1871 - 1928
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 26
1871 - 1955
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 27
1871 - 1900
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 28
1871 - 1953
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 29
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 30
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 31
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 32
1871 - 1956
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 33
1871 - 1951
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 34
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 35
1871 - 1940
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 36
1871 - 1914
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 37
1844 - 1919
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 21
1856 - 1919
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 22
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 23
1867 - 1919
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 24
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 25
1905 - 1919
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 26
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 27
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 28
1880 - 1919
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 29
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 30
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 31
1843 - 1919
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 32
1844 - 1919
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 33
Among people born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 378 out of 3,262. Before him are Oleg Penkovsky (1919), Ivan Silayev (1930), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), and Boris Nemtsov (1959). After him are Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), and Tamara Karsavina (1885).
1919 - 1963
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 372
1930 - 2023
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 373
1893 - 1953
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 374
1924 - 1997
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 375
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 376
1959 - 2015
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 377
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 378
1576 - 1625
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 379
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 380
1888 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 381
1846 - 1918
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 382
1967 - Present
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 383
1885 - 1978
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 384
Among writers born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 41. Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Arthur Adamov (1908), Henri Troyat (1911), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), and Velimir Khlebnikov (1885). After him are Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Andrei Bely (1880), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Nikolai Leskov (1831), and Vasily Zhukovsky (1783).
1933 - 2017
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 35
1908 - 1970
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 36
1911 - 2007
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 37
1766 - 1826
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 38
1924 - 1997
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 39
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 40
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 41
1913 - 2009
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 42
1880 - 1934
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 43
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 44
1858 - 1915
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 45
1831 - 1895
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 46
1783 - 1852
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 47