WRITER

Nikolay Kostomarov

1817 - 1885

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Mykola Ivanovych Kostomarov (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Костомаров; May 16, 1817 – April 19, 1885) or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: Николай Иванович Костомаров) was one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the father of modern Ukrainian historiography. He was a professor of Russian history at the St. Vladimir University of Kiev and later at the St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Kostomarov has received more than 51,832 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nikolay Kostomarov is the 2,386th most popular writer (up from 2,417th in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Russia (up from 879th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolay Kostomarov ranks 2,386 out of 7,302Before him are Aino Kallas, Agathangelos, Taliesin, Ana María Matute, Kristijonas Donelaitis, and Benoît de Sainte-Maure. After him are Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Émile Augier, André Frossard, Charles Berlitz, Akaki Tsereteli, and Laura Esquivel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Nikolay Kostomarov ranks 33Before him are Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, János Arany, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Carl Nägeli, Mihail Kogălniceanu, and José Zorrilla. After him are Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Bernhard Windscheid, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Karl Vogt, and Adolphe Alphand. Among people deceased in 1885, Nikolay Kostomarov ranks 37Before him are Nikolai Severtzov, Nikolay Danilevsky, Charles Rogier, Louis Riel, Narcís Monturiol, and Aga Khan II. After him are Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Thomas A. Hendricks, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Hermann von Fehling, and Thomas Andrews.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Kostomarov ranks 870 out of 3,761Before him are Aino Kallas (1878), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Fyodor Rostopchin (1763), Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), Marfa Sobakina (1552), and Anatoly Lukyanov (1930). After him are Maria Sharapova (1987), Vladimir Fock (1898), Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (1868), and George Volkoff (1914).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolay Kostomarov ranks 106Before him are Andrey Kurkov (1961), Sergei Nilus (1862), Leah Goldberg (1911), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), Aino Kallas (1878), and Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714). After him are Noor Inayat Khan (1914), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Eeva Kilpi (1928), Şihabetdin Märcani (1818), and Ivan Yefremov (1908).