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Yakov Polonsky

1819 - 1898

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Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (Russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1819 – 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1898) was a leading Pushkinist poet who wrote poems faithful to the traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky attended the Moscow University, where he befriended Apollon Grigoryev and Afanasy Fet. Three young and promising poets wrote pleasing and elegant poems, emulating Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yakov Polonsky has received more than 29,830 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Polonsky is the 5,104th most popular writer (down from 4,787th in 2019), the 1,873rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,656th in 2019) and the 242nd most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yakov Polonsky ranks 5,104 out of 5,755. Before him are Tua Forsström, Richard K. Morgan, Louise Erdrich, Tony Hillerman, David Belasco, and Semyon Nadson. After him are Karel van de Woestijne, Gyula Juhász, Caterina Davinio, Juris Alunāns, Frank Heller, and Armand Lanoux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Yakov Polonsky ranks 80. Before him are Constant Fornerod, Władysław Taczanowski, Klaus Groth, Julia Ward Howe, William Powell Frith, and Charles Piazzi Smyth. After him are James Spriggs Payne, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, Cyrus West Field, Alexandru G. Golescu, and William Rosecrans. Among people deceased in 1898, Yakov Polonsky ranks 70. Before him are John Hopkinson, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Félix María Zuloaga, James Hall, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and Henry Liddell. After him are Don Carlos Buell, Osbert Salvin, Luiza Pesjak, William Rosecrans, Wilford Woodruff, and Benjamin Mountfort.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 1,873 out of 3,262. Before him are Sergei Slonimsky (1932), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Gregory Ratoff (1897), and Semyon Nadson (1862). After him are Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), Andrey Belousov (1959), Oleg Taktarov (1967), Klara Guseva (1937), Oxana Fedorova (1977), and Larisa Petrik (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 242. Before him are Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Nikolai Aseev (1889), Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979), and Semyon Nadson (1862). After him are Lev Mei (1822), Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Darya Dontsova (1952), Dmitri Prigov (1940), and Ğäliäsğar Kamal (1879).

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