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Alexander Odoevsky

1802 - 1839

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Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Одо́евский, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Odoevskiy, November 26 (December 8), 1802 – October 10 (22) or August 15 (27), 1839) was a Russian poet and playwright, one of the leading figures of the 1825 Decembrist revolt. One of Odoevsky's lines, "Iz iskry vozgoritsa plamya" (Из искры возгорится пламя, One spark will start a flame), has come down in history as a long-lasting slogan of the Russian revolutionary movement. It was chosen as a motto (signed as: the "Decembrists' reply to Pushkin") for the Lenin-founded newspaper Iskra, also giving the magazine its title, which means "spark". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Odoevsky is the 4,448th most popular writer (up from 5,178th in 2019), the 1,623rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,935th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 4,448 out of 7,302. Before him are Joe Eszterhas, Justine Siegemund, Nicholas Pileggi, Yōko Ogawa, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Grace Elliott. After him are Peter Carey, Hanna Krall, Margarita Aliger, Alaiza Pashkevich, Diane Disney Miller, and Brendan Behan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 50. Before him are Benoît Fourneyron, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, August Friedrich Pott, Eugène Flachat, Yuriy Venelin, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Richard Thomas Lowe, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Nicholas Wiseman, and Édouard Ménétries. Among people deceased in 1839, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 36. Before him are Lady Hester Stanhope, Denis Davydov, Giuseppe Valadier, Joseph-François Michaud, Yuriy Venelin, and Bhimsen Thapa. After him are José María Heredia y Heredia, Hendrik Voogd, Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel, Jens Esmark, Allan Cunningham, and William Beechey.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 1,623 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Burlyayev (1946), Vladimir Spivakov (1944), Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), and Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908). After him are Max Wien (1866), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Vladimir Lisin (1956), Aleksandr Golovin (1863), Carl Neumann (1832), and Aleksey Koltsov (1809).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Odoevsky ranks 203. Before him are Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), Aleksey Remizov (1877), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), and Vladislav Khodasevich (1886). After him are Aleksey Koltsov (1809), Zainab Biisheva (1908), Agnes Miegel (1879), Tatyana Tolstaya (1951), Vera Panova (1905), and Teffi (1872).

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