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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 3,235 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Struve is the 424th most popular historian (down from 314th in 2019), the 2,065th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,726th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Vasily Struve ranks 424 out of 339. Before him are Stephen F. Cohen, Jacques Barzun, R. H. Tawney, Ivan Charota, Romila Thapar, and Jacob Theodor Klein. After him are Lawrence Stone, Richard Overy, Robert Kagan, Richard Hofstadter, Anvar Chingizoglu, and Mary Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vasily Struve ranks 244. Before him are Otakar Vindyš, Hans Beyer, Otto Scheff, José María Belauste, Carl Folcker, and Herbert Hübner. After him are Hugo Wieslander, William Keighley, Jamnalal Bajaj, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Benchley, and Ray Collins. Among people deceased in 1965, Vasily Struve ranks 191. Before him are Steve Cochran, Hans Beyer, John Cregan, Edward Archibald, Robert Benson, and Felix Frankfurter. After him are Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, Daniel Frank, Sida Košutić, Vajiha Samadova, Luigi Maiocco, and Herbert Morrison.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 2,065 out of 3,262. Before him are Chulpan Khamatova (1975), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (1959), Yevdokiya Mekshilo (1931), Alina Zagitova (2002), Yelena Davydova (1961), and Jacob Theodor Klein (1685). After him are Yunus-bek Yevkurov (1963), Igor Presnyakov (1960), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Boris Razinsky (1933), Mikhail Yefremov (1963), and Boris Lagutin (1938).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Vasily Struve ranks 17. Before him are Boris Rybakov (1908), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Aron Gurevich (1924), Boris Chicherin (1828), Timofey Granovsky (1813), and Jacob Theodor Klein (1685).

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