WRITER

Vladimir Korolenko

1853 - 1921

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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Korolenko has received more than 90,655 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Vladimir Korolenko is the 1,510th most popular writer (down from 1,159th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 145th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Vladimir Korolenko is most famous for his writing about the life of peasants in Russia.

Memorability Metrics

  • 91k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chudnai︠a︡
1900
Ocherki i razskazy
1887
Birds of heaven
1919
Deti podzemelʹi͡a︡
1927
Slepoĭ muzykant
Fiction, Blind musicians, Accessible book
1890
Istorii︠a︡ moego sovremennika
1922

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 1,510 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry de Montherlant, Jacopo Sannazaro, Olaus Petri, Jonas Mekas, George of Pisidia, and Louise Labé. After him are Hjalmar Söderberg, Babrius, Ion Luca Caragiale, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, J. G. Ballard, and Semonides of Amorgos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 30. Before him are Emil Jellinek, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, Louise Abbéma, and Flinders Petrie. After him are Antonio Salandra, Francesco Filippini, Sophia Perovskaya, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Fritz von Below, and Vladimir Shukhov. Among people deceased in 1921, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 41. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou, Ivan Vazov, Georges Feydeau, Nikolay Gumilyov, Hara Takashi, and Fernand Khnopff. After him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Jean-Paul Laurens, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Hermann Paul, and William Robert Brooks.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 212 out of 1,365. Before him are Natalia Sedova (1882), Erwin Chargaff (1905), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), and Yaakov Dori (1899). After him are Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), and Alexandru Averescu (1859).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 31. Before him are Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), and Naftali Herz Imber (1856). After him are Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), David Burliuk (1882), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Vasyl Stus (1938), and Lina Kostenko (1930).

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