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Alexander Afanasyev

1826 - 1871

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Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Афанасьев; 23 July [O.S. 11 July] 1826 – 5 October [O.S. 23 September] 1871) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not restricted to Great Russia, but included folk tales from what are now Ukraine and Belarus as well. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation of being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Afanasyev is the 1,375th most popular writer (down from 1,256th in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from Russia (down from 449th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Afanasyev is most famous for his collection of Russian fairy tales, "The Red Fairy Book."

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Among writers, Alexander Afanasyev ranks 1,375 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Radishchev, Boris Pahor, Georg Kaiser, Pío Baroja, Ignazio Silone, and Albert Barillé. After him are Robert de Montesquiou, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Sławomir Mrożek, Jean Chapelain, and Deepak Chopra.

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Among people born in 1826, Alexander Afanasyev ranks 14. Before him are Ludwig Minkus, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Zénobe Gramme, Spotted Elk, Adolf Bastian, Karl von Piloty, and William Waddington. Among people deceased in 1871, Alexander Afanasyev ranks 16. Before him are Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Anna Atkins, Sigismond Thalberg, Robert Anderson, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha. After him are Wilhelm Weitling, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Anselme Payen, Charles Paul de Kock, Carl Tausig, and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Afanasyev ranks 474 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Alexander Radishchev (1749), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Vasily Surikov (1848), and Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191). After him are Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valentin Pavlov (1937), Viktor Belenko (1947), Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), and Filipp Golikov (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Afanasyev ranks 57. Before him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Andrei Platonov (1899), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), and Alexander Radishchev (1749). After him are Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Salawat Yulayev (1754), and Viktor Suvorov (1947).

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