WRITER

Taras Shevchenko

1814 - 1861

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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taras Shevchenko has received more than 1,269,373 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Taras Shevchenko is the 175th most popular writer (up from 202nd in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 18th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Taras Shevchenko is most famous for his poetry.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 73.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Zapovit
1964
Poems
1840
Mala knyzhka
1963
Гайдамаки
1919
Taras Shevchenko
1976
Dnevnik
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Taras Shevchenko ranks 175 out of 7,302. Before him are Yasunari Kawabata, Orhan Pamuk, Karel Čapek, Pliny the Younger, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Wisława Szymborska. After him are Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, Osamu Dazai, André Breton, and Nizami Ganjavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Taras Shevchenko ranks 3. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, and Jean-François Millet. After him are Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1861, Taras Shevchenko ranks 2. Before him is Abdulmejid I. After him are Frederick William IV of Prussia, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Albert, Prince Consort, Xianfeng Emperor, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Lola Montez, Pedro V of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko ranks 15 out of 1,365. Before him are Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), and Ilya Repin (1844). After him are Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), and Stanisław Leszczyński (1677).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko ranks 3. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), and Joseph Conrad (1857). After him are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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