WRITER

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 66,645 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Teffi is the 3,801st most popular writer (up from 4,033rd in 2019), the 1,385th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,439th in 2019) and the 175th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 67k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Teffi ranks 3,801 out of 7,302Before her are Remmius Palaemon, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Kalhana, Stevan Sremac, Eric Ambler, and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. After her are Kočo Racin, François Cavanna, Torgny Lindgren, Francis Scott Key, Gennadius of Massilia, and Alexander Volkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Teffi ranks 114Before her are Morris Travers, Vilhelms Purvītis, Georges Urbain, Adolphe Grisel, Henry Bataille, and Otto Witte. After her are Albert Tyler, Paul Fort, Arthur Blake, Elia Dalla Costa, Selma Rıza, and Johan Pitka. Among people deceased in 1952, Teffi ranks 106Before her are Adolf Busch, Gino Fano, Ludwig Kaas, Karel Lamač, Herman Sörgel, and Italo Montemezzi. After her are Albert Bassermann, Alberto Hurtado, Elisabeth Schumann, Artur Kapp, Sergey Merkurov, and Ernst Streeruwitz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Teffi ranks 1,385 out of 3,761Before her are Vitaly Churkin (1952), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), Natalya Kovshova (1920), Anatoli Firsov (1941), Victor Skumin (1948), and Vladimir Petrov (1947). After her are Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Alexander Protopopov (1866), Masha Gessen (1967), Marfa Boretskaya (1450), Filipp Oktyabrsky (1899), and Alexander Mikulin (1895).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Teffi ranks 175Before her are Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Yuli Daniel (1925), and Johannes Bobrowski (1917). After her are Masha Gessen (1967), Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Mikhail Shishkin (1961), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), and Sophia Parnok (1885).