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Alexander Bestuzhev

1797 - 1837

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Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бесту́жев, IPA: [bʲɪˈstuʐɨf] ; 3 November [O.S. 23 October] 1797 – 19 June [O.S. 7 June] 1837) was a Russian writer and Decembrist. After the Decembrist revolt he was sent into exile to the Caucasus where the Russian Empire was waging war against the Circassians. There writing under the pseudonym Marlinsky (Russian: Марли́нский, IPA: [mɐrˈlʲinskʲɪj] ) he became known as a romantic poet, short story writer and novelist. He was killed there in a skirmish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Bestuzhev is the 3,350th most popular writer (up from 3,670th in 2019), the 1,172nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,347th in 2019) and the 137th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 3,350 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, Nathan Alterman, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Russell T Davies, Kafū Nagai, and Mike Mentzer. After him are Begum Rokeya, Olena Teliha, James Rollins, Lucius Varius Rufus, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Ion Heliade Rădulescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 59. Before him are Anthony Panizzi, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Innocent of Alaska, Ramón Castilla, Karl Otfried Müller, and Henry E. Steinway. After him are Johann Andreas Wagner, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Peter Georg Bang, Paweł Strzelecki, and El Hadj Umar Tall. Among people deceased in 1837, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 33. Before him are Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, William George Horner, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gaspar del Bufalo, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand. After him are Agustín Eyzaguirre, Valentino Fioravanti, Yuri Lisyansky, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Pavel Schilling, and Diego Portales.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 1,172 out of 3,761. Before him are Serhiy Tkach (1952), Oleg Deripaska (1968), Johannes Virolainen (1914), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), and Galina Zybina (1931). After him are Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Anna Filosofova (1837), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Olena Teliha (1906), Yulian Semyonov (1931), and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Bestuzhev ranks 137. Before him are Andrei Amalrik (1938), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Valentin Rasputin (1937), Viktor Astafyev (1924), and Agniya Barto (1906). After him are Olena Teliha (1906), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Denis Davydov (1784), Aino Kallas (1878), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938).

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