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Vasily Bazhenov

1737 - 1799

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Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Баже́нов; 1 March (N.S. 12) 1737 or 1738 – 2 August (N.S. 13) 1799) was a Russian neoclassical architect, graphic artist, architectural theorist and educator. Bazhenov and his associates Matvey Kazakov and Ivan Starov were the leading local architects of the Russian Enlightenment, a period dominated by foreign architects (Charles Cameron, Giacomo Quarenghi, Antonio Rinaldi and others). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Bazhenov has received more than 35,315 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vasily Bazhenov is the 364th most popular architect (down from 345th in 2019), the 1,475th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,321st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Vasily Bazhenov ranks 364 out of 424. Before him are Peter Joseph Lenné, Nicholas Grimshaw, Capability Brown, Juan de Villanueva, Victor Baltard, and Michel de Klerk. After him are Mammad Hasan Hajinski, James of Saint George, Andrey Voronikhin, Giuseppe Piermarini, Christoph Dientzenhofer, and Tylman van Gameren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Vasily Bazhenov ranks 28. Before him are Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Suzanne Curchod, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Alexander Dalrymple, Charlotte de Rohan, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton. After him are Morten Thrane Brünnich, John Hunter, Francis Hopkinson, and Charles Hutton. Among people deceased in 1799, Vasily Bazhenov ranks 36. Before him are Francesco Mario Pagano, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Johann Julius Walbaum, William Withering, and Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. After him are Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt and William Paca.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Bazhenov ranks 1,475 out of 3,262. Before him are Alexander Pichushkin (1974), Platon Oyunsky (1893), Ivan Shmelyov (1873), Zara Dolukhanova (1918), Oleg Vidov (1943), and Hermann Goetz (1840). After him are Mikhail Katkov (1818), Sandra Kalniete (1952), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Viktoria Mullova (1959), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), and Herman of Alaska (1756).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Russia

Among architects born in Russia, Vasily Bazhenov ranks 8. Before him are Bruno Taut (1880), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), Lev Rudnev (1885), Alexander Tamanian (1878), Konstantin Thon (1794), and Joseph Bové (1784). After him are Andrey Voronikhin (1759), Vasily Stasov (1769), Matvey Kazakov (1738), Nikolay Lvov (1753), Max Taut (1884), and Mikhail Zemtsov (1688).

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