1814 - 1841
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf]; October 15 [O.S. October 3] 1814 – July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Lermontov has received more than 524,462 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Mikhail Lermontov is the 295th most popular writer, the 103rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 98th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Writer.
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Among writers, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 295 out of 5,794. Before him are O. Henry, Arthur Miller, Henrik Pontoppidan, Anne Brontë, J. K. Rowling, and Martial. After him are Lucan, Jack Kerouac, Ernst Jünger, Gao Xingjian, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Alberto Moravia.
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 289
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 290
1857 - 1943
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 291
1820 - 1849
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 292
1965 - Present
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 293
40 - 104
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 294
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 295
39 - 65
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 296
1922 - 1969
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 297
1895 - 1998
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 298
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 299
1600 - 1681
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 300
1907 - 1990
HPI: 76.90
Rank: 301
Among people born in 1814, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Samuel Colt, Taras Shevchenko, and Adolphe Sax. After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Anders Jonas Ångström, Henri Nestlé, Julius von Mayer, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1841, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 2. Before him is Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are Nicolas Appert, William Henry Harrison, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Johan August Arfwedson, Ferdinando Carulli, Friedrich Sertürner, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and Minh Mạng.
1814 - 1876
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 1
1814 - 1875
HPI: 81.53
Rank: 2
1814 - 1862
HPI: 79.10
Rank: 3
1814 - 1861
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 4
1814 - 1894
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 5
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 6
1814 - 1879
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 7
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 8
1814 - 1890
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 9
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 10
1814 - 1864
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12
1776 - 1841
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 1
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 2
1749 - 1841
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 3
1773 - 1841
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 4
1781 - 1841
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 5
1776 - 1841
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 6
1778 - 1841
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 7
1792 - 1841
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 8
1770 - 1841
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 9
1783 - 1841
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 10
1764 - 1841
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 11
1791 - 1841
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 103 out of 2,688. Before him are Boris Spassky (1937), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), and Alexander Alekhine (1892). After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Ivan V of Russia (1666), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Sergey Kirov (1886), Lev Kamenev (1883), and Vasili IV of Russia (1552).
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 97
1857 - 1935
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 98
1850 - 1891
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 99
1740 - 1764
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 100
1888 - 1938
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 101
1892 - 1946
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 102
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 103
1797 - 1871
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 104
1666 - 1696
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 105
1869 - 1939
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 106
1886 - 1934
HPI: 76.96
Rank: 107
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 108
1552 - 1612
HPI: 76.74
Rank: 109
Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 14. Before him are Ivan Turgenev (1818), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Ivan Krylov (1769), Ivan Goncharov (1812), and Sergei Yesenin (1895).
1818 - 1883
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 8
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 11
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 12
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 13
1814 - 1841
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 14
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 15
1938 - 1980
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 16
1926 - 2011
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 17
1769 - 1844
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 18
1812 - 1891
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 19
1895 - 1925
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 20