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WRITER

Leonid Andreyev

1871 - 1919

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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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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

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  • 4.61

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leonid Andreyev ranks 1,060 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Leonid Andreyev ranks 31Before 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 27Before 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.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 378 out of 3,262Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 41Before 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).