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Symeon of Polotsk

1629 - 1680

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Symeon (Simeon) of Polotsk or Symeon Polotsky (Russian: Симео́н По́лоцкий; born as Samuel Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz, Russian: Самуи́л Петро́вский-Ситнянович; December 12, 1629 – August 25, 1680) was an academically-trained Baroque poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener of Belarusian descent who came from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Tsardom of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Symeon of Polotsk has received more than 29,149 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Symeon of Polotsk is the 2,857th most popular writer (up from 3,009th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Belarus (down from 90th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.40

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 2,857 out of 5,755Before him are Jean Rhys, Daniel Varoujan, Johan Borgen, Andrei Amalrik, Ubayd Zakani, and Raffi. After him are Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Al-Asmaʿi, Claude Farrère, Sven Lindqvist, John Banville, and Antonio de Guevara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 17Before him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Cornelis Tromp, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert. After him are Laurent Cassegrain and Agnes Block. Among people deceased in 1680, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 31Before him are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Peter Lely, Frans Post, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Marco Uccellini. After him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Yun Hyu, and Wang Shimin.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 91 out of 330Before him are January Suchodolski (1797), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Sergei Aleinikov (1961), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), and Oscar Zariski (1899). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), and Ivonka Survilla (1936).

Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 14Before him are S. Ansky (1863), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), and Itzhak Katzenelson (1886). After him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), and Alaiza Pashkevich (1876).