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Teffi

1872 - 1952

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Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Russian: Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи; 21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872 – 6 October 1952) was a Russian humorist writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Teffi has received more than 65,503 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Teffi is the 4,046th most popular writer (up from 4,151st in 2019), the 1,443rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,411th in 2019) and the 189th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Teffi ranks 4,046 out of 5,755Before her are Arturo Uslar Pietri, Joe Abercrombie, Richard Hughes, Thomas Friedman, Michael Morpurgo, and Ari Behn. After her are Anna Gavalda, Lajos Kassák, Bolesław Leśmian, Janko Kráľ, Mary McCarthy, and Alexander Galich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Teffi ranks 120Before her are George S. Robertson, Théophile de Donder, Siegmund von Hausegger, Selma Rıza, Nikolai Panin, and Sergei Vasilenko. After her are Carl Bonde, Zane Grey, Arthur Blake, Maude Adams, Gustave Sandras, and Edward Wilson. Among people deceased in 1952, Teffi ranks 114Before her are Solomon Lozovsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, Artur Kapp, Itzik Feffer, Jack Conway, and Yakov Frenkel. After her are Jonas Staugaitis, Curly Howard, Joseph Avenol, Forest Ray Moulton, Guido Castelnuovo, and Elisabeth Schumann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Teffi ranks 1,443 out of 3,262Before her are Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904), Boris Eikhenbaum (1886), Yakov Frenkel (1894), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), and Gennady Sarafanov (1942). After her are Maria Itkina (1932), Aleksandr Abdulov (1953), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946), and Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Teffi ranks 189Before her are Apollon Maykov (1821), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), Aino Kallas (1878), and Daniil Granin (1919). After her are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), Yury Trifonov (1925), Alexander Serafimovich (1863), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), and Platon Oyunsky (1893).