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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

1826 - 1889

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Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (Russian: Михаи́л Евгра́фович Салтыко́в-Щедри́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil jɪvˈɡrafəvʲɪtɕ səltɨˈkof ɕːɪˈdrʲin]; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1826 – 10 May [O.S. 28 April] 1889), born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin (Russian: Николай Щедрин), was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until the Tsarist government banned it in 1884. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin has received more than 197,021 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin is the 1,380th most popular writer (up from 1,488th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Russia (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ranks 1,380 out of 7,302. Before him are Rex Stout, Robert Wilson, Seymour Hersh, Viktor Suvorov, Robert Browning, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. After him are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksandr Kuprin, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ranks 14. Before him are Stanislao Cannizzaro, Frederic Edwin Church, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Alexander Afanasyev, and Armand David. After him are Zénobe Gramme, Adolf Bastian, George B. McClellan, Karl von Piloty, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, and Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1889, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ranks 21. Before him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, Maria Mitchell, and Robert Browning. After him are Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, Jules Dupré, and Gaston Planté.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ranks 494 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Vera Zasulich (1849), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), and Afanasy Nikitin (1500). After him are Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Oleg Protopopov (1932), and Korney Chukovsky (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ranks 62. Before him are Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Edith Södergran (1892), and Viktor Suvorov (1947). After him are Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Konstantin Simonov (1915), and Nina Berberova (1901).

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