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Vasily Perov

1834 - 1882

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Vasily Grigorevich Perov (Russian: Василий Григорьевич Перов; 2 January 1834 [O.S. 21 December 1833] – 10 June [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Perov has received more than 211,776 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Vasily Perov is the 408th most popular painter (down from 353rd in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 370th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Painter.

Vasily Perov is most famous for his painting of the Russian peasantry, "Barge Haulers on the Volga".

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  • 60.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vasily Perov ranks 408 out of 2,023Before him are Asger Jorn, Tom of Finland, Andrea Solari, Joseph Kosuth, John Bauer, and Jean-Étienne Liotard. After him are Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Pietro Cavallini, Marcantonio Raimondi, Carlo Dolci, and Lucian Freud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Vasily Perov ranks 16Before him are August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jan Neruda, Julia Pastrana, Johann Philipp Reis, and Norodom of Cambodia. After him are Aleksis Kivi, Charles Spurgeon, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Kondō Isami, Kawakami Gensai, and John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton. Among people deceased in 1882, Vasily Perov ranks 17Before him are Francesco Hayez, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Ignacy Łukasiewicz. After him are Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Henri Giffard, Mikhail Skobelev, and Henry Draper.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Perov ranks 393 out of 3,761Before him are Andrei Bely (1880), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), and Valery Leontiev (1949). After him are Anton Arensky (1861), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), Jani Beg (1300), Adelina Sotnikova (1996), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), and Fyodor Ushakov (1745).

Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Vasily Perov ranks 13Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Karl Bryullov (1799), Valentin Serov (1865), and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806). After him are Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Lovis Corinth (1858), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Lyubov Popova (1889), Vasily Surikov (1848), and Ivan Bilibin (1876).