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Nikolai Leskov

1831 - 1895

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Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831 – 5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Leskov has received more than 274,054 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Nikolai Leskov is the 1,132nd most popular writer (down from 1,063rd in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from Russia (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Russian Writer.

Nikolai Leskov is most famous for his novel "The Enchanted Wanderer" and the short story "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District."

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  • 270k

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  • 60.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Leskov ranks 1,132 out of 5,755. Before him are Joachim du Bellay, Rigas Feraios, Ouyang Xiu, Polyaenus, Rex Stout, and Yakub Kolas. After him are Joseph Bédier, Raymond Radiguet, Catherine de Bourbon, Ivan Cankar, Cosmas of Prague, and Fernando Arrabal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Nikolai Leskov ranks 21. Before him are Joseph Joachim, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Johann Martin Schleyer, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, and Albert Anker. After him are Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Victorien Sardou, Ilya Ulyanov, Isabella Bird, and Constantin Meunier. Among people deceased in 1895, Nikolai Leskov ranks 19. Before him are Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Arthur Cayley, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Frederick Douglass, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. After him are Lord Randolph Churchill, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, John Russell Hind, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Charles Frederick Worth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 413 out of 3,262. Before him are Pyotr Krasnov (1869), Mehmed I Giray (1465), Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869), Andre Geim (1958), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), and Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553). After him are Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), and Rinat Dasayev (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 46. Before him are Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Andrei Bely (1880), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858). After him are Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Edith Södergran (1892), and Alexander Ostrovsky (1823).

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