WRITER

Pavel Bazhov

1879 - 1950

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Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Бажо́в; 27 January 1879 – 3 December 1950) was a Russian writer and publicist. Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy tales The Malachite Box, based on Ural folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, a translation of the collection into English was published in New York City and London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Bazhov has received more than 66,421 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Pavel Bazhov is the 3,547th most popular writer (down from 3,440th in 2019), the 1,312th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,251st in 2019) and the 164th most popular Russian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pavel Bazhov ranks 3,547 out of 7,302. Before him are Cotton Mather, Václav Hanka, Jien, Jovan Sterija Popović, Anna Gavalda, and Mikhail Zhvanetsky. After him are Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Bertus Aafjes, Ibn Bibi, Onomacritus, Leslie Stephen, and Charles Malik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Pavel Bazhov ranks 130. Before him are Maud Menten, Kafū Nagai, Milan Šufflay, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Helena Roerich, and Leonid Mandelstam. After him are Zsigmond Móricz, Grace Coolidge, Mazo de la Roche, Wu Lien-teh, Albert Taillandier, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. Among people deceased in 1950, Pavel Bazhov ranks 109. Before him are Sudirman, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Orhan Veli Kanık, Heinrich Tessenow, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. After him are Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Miklós Bánffy, László Cseh, Recep Peker, Sami al-Hinnawi, and Hiroshi Yoshida.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Bazhov ranks 1,312 out of 3,761. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (1507), Vladimir Zeldin (1915), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Valery Voronin (1939), and Tatyana Lioznova (1924). After him are Elvira Nabiullina (1963), Pavel Kurochkin (1900), Nikolai Ottovich von Essen (1860), Vissarion Shebalin (1902), Ivan Larionov (1830), and Sergei Makarov (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Pavel Bazhov ranks 164. Before him are Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), Andreï Makine (1957), Andrejs Pumpurs (1841), Alexey Troitsky (1866), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), and Helena Roerich (1879). After him are Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Konstantin Fedin (1892), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), and Dmitry Grigorovich (1822).

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