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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 33,509 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yakov Polonsky is the 5,666th most popular writer (down from 5,087th in 2019), the 2,154th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,869th in 2019) and the 262nd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yakov Polonsky ranks 5,666 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred Capus, Michael Shermer, Nikolay Rubtsov, Jean-Paul Dubois, Jeanette Winterson, and Sapardi Djoko Damono. After him are Paul Arène, H. A. Rey, Kevin Kelly, Mario Luzi, Edmund White, and Casimiro de Abreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Yakov Polonsky ranks 93. Before him are William Powell Frith, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, William Muir, Joseph Bazalgette, and Yuri Samarin. After him are Monier Monier-Williams, Alexander Melville Bell, George Salmon, William Rosecrans, Narcyza Żmichowska, and Henry Tate. Among people deceased in 1898, Yakov Polonsky ranks 73. Before him are Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, James Hall, Henry Liddell, Wilford Woodruff, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, and Don Carlos Buell. After him are Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Johan Lange, Yelena Polenova, William Rosecrans, Thomas F. Bayard, and Luiza Pesjak.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 2,154 out of 3,761. Before him are Vera Maretskaya (1906), Semyon Nadson (1862), Igor Maslennikov (1931), Yuri Samarin (1819), Nikolai Golitsyn (1850), and Pavel Grudinin (1960). After him are Eugen Walaschek (1917), Boris Tishchenko (1939), Ivan Kuratov (1839), Sergey Melikov (1965), Leonid Sobinov (1872), and Sylvi Saimo (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 262. Before him are Ğäliäsğar Kamal (1879), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Semyon Nadson (1862), and Yuri Samarin (1819). After him are Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Lev Mei (1822), Dmitri Prigov (1940), Darya Dontsova (1952), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), and Aleksandr Chakovsky (1913).

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