WRITER

Tanya Savicheva

1930 - 1944

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Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva ((1930-01-23)23 January 1930 – (1944-07-01)1 July 1944), was a Russian teenage diarist who kept a diary in 1942 whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva recorded the successive deaths of each member of her family in her diary, with her final entry indicating her belief to be the sole living family member. Although Savicheva was rescued and transferred to a hospital, she succumbed to intestinal tuberculosis in July 1944 at age 14. Savicheva's image and the pages from her diary became symbolic of the human cost of the siege of Leningrad, and she is remembered in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tanya Savicheva has received more than 475,198 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tanya Savicheva is the 2,019th most popular writer (down from 1,614th in 2019), the 730th most popular biography from Russia (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 86th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 62.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tanya Savicheva ranks 2,019 out of 7,302. Before her are Telesilla, Julien Gracq, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Matthieu Ricard, Sophron, and Richard Brautigan. After her are Mariano José de Larra, Bella Akhmadulina, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Julian Tuwim, Jean Starobinski, and Cassius Longinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tanya Savicheva ranks 144. Before her are Frank Lucas, Dündar Ali Osman, Guy Ligier, James Baker, Eugenio Castellotti, and Bernard Collomb. After her are Stephen Sondheim, Philippe Leroy, Stephen Smale, Tony Lip, Tom Wolfe, and Choe Thae-bok. Among people deceased in 1944, Tanya Savicheva ranks 116. Before her are Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Chaim Rumkowski, Hans Krása, Paul Masson, and Bruno Lüdke. After her are Frank Marshall, Fritz Pfeffer, Pavel Haas, Takeo Takagi, Musa Cälil, and Josef Bürckel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tanya Savicheva ranks 730 out of 3,761. Before her are Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Maria Yudina (1899), Joseph Trumpeldor (1880), Irena Szewińska (1946), and Georgy Shpagin (1897). After her are Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Alisa Freindlich (1934), Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), Vera Figner (1852), and Lyudmila Chernykh (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Tanya Savicheva ranks 86. Before her are Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Marko Vovchok (1833), Valery Bryusov (1873), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), and Countess of Ségur (1799). After her are Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Afanasy Fet (1820), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), and Rachel Bluwstein (1890).

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