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Vasily Klyuchevsky

1841 - 1911

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Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (Russian: Василий Осипович Ключевский; 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1841 – 25 May [O.S. 12 May] 1911) was a leading Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Klyuchevsky has received more than 69,785 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vasily Klyuchevsky is the 216th most popular historian (down from 206th in 2019), the 1,042nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 999th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Vasily Klyuchevsky ranks 216 out of 561Before him are Zeev Sternhell, Friedrich Meinecke, Egon Friedell, Guo Pu, Heinrich Graetz, and Antiochus of Syracuse. After him are Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Ivane Javakhishvili, John Foxe, Sigfried Giedion, Ahmad Kasravi, and Albert Soboul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Vasily Klyuchevsky ranks 53Before him are Józef Brandt, Catulle Mendès, Oreste Baratieri, Marie Alfred Cornu, Anselmo Lorenzo, and Princess Marie of the Netherlands. After him are Felip Pedrell, Ernst Schröder, Karl Binding, Theodor von Oppolzer, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, and Paul Wallot. Among people deceased in 1911, Vasily Klyuchevsky ranks 41Before him are Ernst Brenner, Konrad Duden, Édouard André, John Hughlings Jackson, Piet Cronjé, and Maurice Rouvier. After him are Kōtoku Shūsui, Antonio Fogazzaro, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Joan Maragall, Dmitry Bogrov, and Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Klyuchevsky ranks 1,042 out of 3,761Before him are Stanislav Cherchesov (1963), Natalia Gutman (1942), Vasily Lanovoy (1934), Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (1878), Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582), and Sergei Yutkevich (1904). After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Denis Davydov (1784), Max Vasmer (1886), Emil Wiechert (1861), Tini Beg (1341), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Vasily Klyuchevsky ranks 6Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), and Alexander Vasiliev (1867). After him are Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Boris Rybakov (1908).