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Alexander Blok

1880 - 1921

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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok] ; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Blok is the 815th most popular writer (down from 775th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Russia (down from 261st in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian poet and playwright. He is most famous for his poem "The Twelve," which is a long, symbolic poem about the Bolshevik Revolution.

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Among writers, Alexander Blok ranks 815 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Cesare Pavese, Joseph of Anchieta, Robert Ludlum, William Saroyan, and Masaru Emoto. After him are Julius Fučík, Gerard of Cremona, Nikolay Karamzin, James Jones, Aelia Eudocia, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Among people born in 1880, Alexander Blok ranks 32. Before him are Michel Fokine, Mohammed Alim Khan, Bruno Taut, Elton Mayo, H. L. Mencken, and Georg von Trapp. After him are Vojtech Tuka, Ernest Bloch, Kuniaki Koiso, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Elizabeth Christ Trump, and Álvaro Obregón. Among people deceased in 1921, Alexander Blok ranks 20. Before him are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, `Abdu'l-Bahá, John Boyd Dunlop, Antoni Grabowski, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. After him are Engelbert Humperdinck, Mykola Leontovych, Eugen Dühring, Matthias Erzberger, William II of Württemberg, and Ignác Goldziher.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Blok ranks 271 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Kurchatov (1903), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), and Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553). After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Blok ranks 28. Before him are Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883). After him are Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Arthur Adamov (1908), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), and Vasily Zhukovsky (1783).

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