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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 84,843 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Vladimir Korolenko is the 1,161st most popular writer (up from 1,205th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 148th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 1,161 out of 5,755Before him are Jean Giono, Odoric of Pordenone, Danielle Steel, Judah Leon Abravanel, Claudius Aelianus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. After him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Sami Frashëri, Robert Jordan, Marilyn vos Savant, Dylan Thomas, and P. L. Travers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 28Before him are Hans Christian Gram, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Emil Jellinek, Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, and Kitasato Shibasaburō. After him are Flinders Petrie, Louise Abbéma, Vladimir Shukhov, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Sophia Perovskaya. Among people deceased in 1921, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 28Before him are Julius Richard Petri, Ignác Goldziher, Eugen Dühring, Robert de Montesquiou, Karl von Bülow, and Fernand Khnopff. After him are Oscar Montelius, Hara Takashi, Mykola Leontovych, Ivan Vazov, Prince Louis of Battenberg, and Hermann Schwarz.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 146 out of 1,083Before him are Leo Kanner (1894), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Alfred Redl (1864), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Serge Lifar (1904), and Ida Rubinstein (1883). After him are Boris Savinkov (1879), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Valentin Glushko (1908), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Pavel Popovich (1930), and Anastasia of Kiev (1023).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 23Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Bruno Schulz (1892), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), and Nikolay Nekrasov (1821). After him are Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836).