1828 - 1889
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 372,312 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Nikolay Chernyshevsky is the 622nd most popular writer (up from 648th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Russia (down from 210th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Writer.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky is most famous for his novel "What Is To Be Done?"
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Among writers, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 622 out of 5,755. Before him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maurice Blanchot, Sin Saimdang, John Bunyan, Daphne du Maurier, and Juana Inés de la Cruz. After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Robert Ludlum, Ivan Franko, John Irving, and Edward Bernays.
1772 - 1834
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 616
1907 - 2003
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 617
1504 - 1551
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 618
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 619
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 620
1648 - 1695
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 621
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 622
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 623
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 624
1927 - 2001
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 625
1856 - 1916
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 626
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 627
1891 - 1995
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 628
Among people born in 1828, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 11. Before him are Randal Cremer, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Saigō Takamori, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Charbel Makhlouf. After him are Louise of the Netherlands, Albert Marth, Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, Ferdinand Cohn, and Joseph Swan. Among people deceased in 1889, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 11. Before him are Jefferson Davis, Alexandre Cabanel, Father Damien, Luís I of Portugal, Mihai Eminescu, and Michel Eugène Chevreul. After him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Wilkie Collins, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Marie of Prussia, Wilhelm Tempel, and Giovanni Bottesini.
1828 - 1908
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 5
1828 - 1858
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 6
1828 - 1893
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 7
1828 - 1877
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 8
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 9
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 10
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1828 - 1871
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 12
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 13
1828 - 1902
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 14
1828 - 1896
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 15
1828 - 1898
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 16
1828 - 1914
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 17
1808 - 1889
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 5
1823 - 1889
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 6
1840 - 1889
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 7
1838 - 1889
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 8
1850 - 1889
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 9
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 10
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 12
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 13
1838 - 1889
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 14
1825 - 1889
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 15
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 16
1821 - 1889
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 17
Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 219 out of 3,262. Before him are Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Ivan Krylov (1769), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946). After him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Gherman Titov (1935), Vasily Blokhin (1895), and Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669).
1415 - 1462
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 213
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 214
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 215
1599 - 1655
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 216
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 217
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 218
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 219
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 220
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 221
1866 - 1887
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 222
1935 - 2000
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 223
1895 - 1955
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 224
1669 - 1731
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 225
Among writers born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 25. Before him are Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Alexander Herzen (1812), and Ivan Krylov (1769). After him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Blok (1880), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803).
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
1812 - 1870
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 23
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 24
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 25
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 26
1812 - 1891
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 27
1880 - 1921
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 28
1795 - 1829
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 29
1962 - 2006
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 30
1803 - 1873
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 31