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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nadezhda Durova

1783 - 1866

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Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova (Russian: Надежда Андреевна Дурова; September 17, 1783 – March 21, 1866), also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a Russian cavalry soldier and writer who participated in the Napoleonic Wars. Assigned female at birth, he ran away from home and lived as a man while enlisting in an uhlan (light cavalry) regiment. He participated in the war, and published his memoirs after his service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadezhda Durova has received more than 122,333 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Nadezhda Durova is the 1,027th most popular military personnel (down from 973rd in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 328th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nadezhda Durova ranks 1,027 out of 1,468. Before her are Pierre André de Suffren, Max von Gallwitz, Gregor MacGregor, Bardas Phokas the Younger, Magnia Urbica, and John Alcock. After her are Ramón de Cardona, François Séverin Marceau, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, and Grigory Shtern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Nadezhda Durova ranks 23. Before her are François Magendie, Roustam Raza, William Sturgeon, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Cheung Po Tsai, and Julius Klaproth. After her are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Charles-Louis Havas, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Guglielmo Pepe, and John Crawfurd. Among people deceased in 1866, Nadezhda Durova ranks 16. Before her are Thomas Hodgkin, Adolph Diesterweg, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Friedrich Rückert, Rikard Nordraak, and Winfield Scott. After her are Alexander von Nordmann, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Paul Gavarni, Massimo d'Azeglio, Jan Kalivoda, and Jules Dupuit.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nadezhda Durova ranks 342 out of 1,083. Before her are Eugen Schauman (1875), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), Vitaliy Masol (1928), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Igor Shafarevich (1923), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877). After her are Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Onufriy (1944), Yuriy Drohobych (1450), Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Grigory Shtern (1900), and Lev Mekhlis (1889).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Nadezhda Durova ranks 25. Before her are Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Sergey Kamenev (1881), and Alexander Matrosov (1924). After her are Grigory Shtern (1900), Stanisław Maczek (1892), Polina Gelman (1919), Pavel Rybalko (1894), Nikolai Linevich (1839), and Pyotr Koshevoy (1904).

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