1814 - 1841
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1814 – 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 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 785,602 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Mikhail Lermontov is the 330th most popular writer (down from 295th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Russia (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Writer.
Mikhail Lermontov is most famous for his poem "The Death of a Poet."
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Among writers, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 330 out of 5,755. Before him are Einhard, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Graham Greene, Elfriede Jelinek, Arthur Miller, and André Malraux. After him are Ali-Shir Nava'i, Michael Ende, Pierre Beaumarchais, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Louise Glück, and Gerhart Hauptmann.
770 - 840
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 324
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 325
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 326
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 327
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 328
1901 - 1976
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 329
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 330
1441 - 1501
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 331
1929 - 1995
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 332
1732 - 1799
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 333
1934 - 2018
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 334
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 335
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 336
Among people born in 1814, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 5. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, and Samuel Colt. After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolphe Sax, Julius von Mayer, Anders Jonas Ångström, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1841, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 2. Before him is Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are William Henry Harrison, Nicolas Appert, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Ferdinando Carulli, Johan August Arfwedson, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 1
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 2
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 3
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 4
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 5
1814 - 1879
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 6
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 7
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 8
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 9
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 10
1814 - 1864
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 12
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 1
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 2
1773 - 1841
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 3
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 4
1781 - 1841
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 5
1776 - 1841
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 6
1778 - 1841
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 7
1770 - 1841
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 8
1792 - 1841
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 9
1764 - 1841
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 10
1783 - 1841
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 11
1778 - 1841
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 124 out of 3,262. Before him are Tokhtamysh (1342), Ivan V of Russia (1666), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Feodor II of Russia (1589), and Boris Spassky (1937). After him are Olga of Kiev (890), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Mikhail Glinka (1804), and Anatoly Dyatlov (1931).
1342 - 1406
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 118
1666 - 1696
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 119
1944 - 1996
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 120
1850 - 1891
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 121
1589 - 1605
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 122
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 123
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 124
890 - 969
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 125
1792 - 1856
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 126
1897 - 1918
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 127
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 128
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 129
1931 - 1995
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 130
Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov ranks 16. Before him are Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Sholokhov (1905). After him are Sergei Yesenin (1895), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Ivan Bunin (1870), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884).
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 11
1818 - 1883
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 12
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 13
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 14
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 16
1895 - 1925
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 17
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 18
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 19
1892 - 1941
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 20
1870 - 1953
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 21
1884 - 1937
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 22