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Vasily Struve

1889 - 1965

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Vasily Vasilievich Struve (Russian: Василий Васильевич Струве; February 2 [O.S. January 21] 1889 in Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 15, 1965 in Leningrad) was a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family, the founder of the Soviet scientific school of researchers on Ancient Near East history. In 1907 he entered the Department of History at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Petersburg University, where he studied the Ancient Greek and Latin languages, and Ancient Egyptian language under the leadership of the famous Russian Egyptologist Boris Turaev. He became proficient in all types of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, including Demotic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Struve has received more than 3,388 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vasily Struve is the 511th most popular historian (down from 424th in 2019), the 2,291st most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,061st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Vasily Struve ranks 511 out of 561. Before him are Rainer Zitelmann, Robert Kagan, Walter Rodney, Carroll Quigley, A. H. M. Jones, and Mary Beard. After him are Lawrence Stone, Mark Mazower, Drew Gilpin Faust, Albrecht Weber, Ivan Charota, and R. H. Tawney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vasily Struve ranks 275. Before him are Paul Nash, Otakar Vindyš, Herbert Hübner, Alfred E. Green, Nagamichi Kuroda, and Elsie Janis. After him are Leslie Boardman, Nina Agadzhanova, Frederico Paredes, Johan Sigfrid Sirén, James Chapin, and Eugene Pallette. Among people deceased in 1965, Vasily Struve ranks 207. Before him are Helen Wainwright, Spike Jones, Robert Benson, Marion Jones Farquhar, Søren Marinus Jensen, and Tadd Dameron. After him are Edward Archibald, Felix Frankfurter, Aimée Antoinette Camus, Herb Drury, Gheorghe Ciolac, and Robert Sjursen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 2,291 out of 3,761. Before him are Vytenis Andriukaitis (1951), Olga Bondarenko (1960), Ellina Zvereva (1960), Vladimir Kiselyov (1957), Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957), and Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949). After him are Anatoly Lein (1931), Lyubov Kozyreva (1929), Vyacheslav Bykov (1960), Oleg Mityaev (1974), Yuri Falin (1937), and Roman Dmitriyev (1949).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 21. Before him are Olena Apanovych (1919), Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Aron Gurevich (1924), Timofey Granovsky (1813), and Irina Antonova (1922). After him are Andrei Lankov (1963).

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