WRITER

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

1828 - 1889

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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and Narodniks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Chernyshevsky has received more than 412,536 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nikolay Chernyshevsky is the 630th most popular writer (down from 621st in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 218th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Writer.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky is most famous for his novel "What Is To Be Done?"

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 630 out of 7,302. Before him are Poliziano, Mihai Eminescu, Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, and Ludwig Tieck. After him are Witold Gombrowicz, Raymond Queneau, Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Saul Bellow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 11. Before him are Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After him are Ferdinand Cohn, Albert Marth, Louise of the Netherlands, Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, and Edmond François Valentin About. Among people deceased in 1889, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 10. Before him are Baroness Mary Vetsera, Jefferson Davis, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexandre Cabanel, Luís I of Portugal, and Mihai Eminescu. After him are Father Damien, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Marie of Prussia, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 203 out of 3,761. Before him are Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Christian Goldbach (1690), Anna Netrebko (1971), and Vasily II of Moscow (1415). After him are Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 24. Before him are Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Bunin (1870), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), and Alexander Herzen (1812). After him are Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Krylov (1769), Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexander Blok (1880), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962).

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