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Vasily Zhukovsky

1783 - 1852

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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1783 – 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future tsar Alexander II. Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic movement into Russia. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets, from ancients like Ferdowsi and Homer to his contemporaries Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Zhukovsky has received more than 240,853 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Vasily Zhukovsky is the 1,015th most popular writer (up from 1,137th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Russia (up from 414th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Writer.

Vasily Zhukovsky is most famous for being a Russian poet and an influential literary critic. He is also well known for his translations of Shakespeare's plays into Russian.

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  • 240k

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  • 61.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 1,015 out of 7,302. Before him are Herodian, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Noah Gordon, and William Gibson. After him are Thomas De Quincey, André Bazin, August Kubizek, Mary Higgins Clark, Shūsaku Endō, and Egill Skallagrímsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 9. Before him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Agustín de Iturbide, Washington Irving, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and Hugh Glass. After him are Friedrich Sertürner, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Roustam Raza. Among people deceased in 1852, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 12. Before him are Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Karl Bryullov, and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. After him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Ján Kollár, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Xavier de Maistre, Thomas Moore, and Marie of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 359 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Ivan Silayev (1930), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858). After him are Mengu-Timur (1235), Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), Irving Berlin (1888), Avvakum (1620), Pavlik Morozov (1918), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Vasily Zhukovsky ranks 38. Before him are Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858). After him are Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Henri Troyat (1911), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Leonid Andreyev (1871), and Andrei Bely (1880).

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