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Alexander Petrov

1799 - 1867

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Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Петро́в) (February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Petrov is the 106th most popular chess player (down from 87th in 2019), the 1,403rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,330th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Petrov ranks 106 out of 461. Before him are Richard Teichmann, Mišo Cebalo, Alexander Khalifman, Israel Albert Horowitz, Jean Dufresne, and Ignatz Kolisch. After him are Jacques Mieses, André Chéron, Veselin Topalov, Philipp Stamma, Grigory Levenfish, and Vasja Pirc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Alexander Petrov ranks 39. Before him are Tanaka Hisashige, François-Auguste Biard, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Manuel Bulnes, and Imre Frivaldszky. After him are Joachim Barrande, Petrache Poenaru, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Robert von Mohl, Heinrich von Kittlitz, and Eliza Acton. Among people deceased in 1867, Alexander Petrov ranks 44. Before him are Simon Sechter, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Santiago Derqui, Benoît Fourneyron, and Mohammad Afzal Khan. After him are Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, José Mariano Salas, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Artur Grottger, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Petrov ranks 1,403 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Gazmanov (1951), Edwin Linkomies (1894), Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Yury Glazkov (1939), Apollon Maykov (1821), and Lyudmila Bragina (1943). After him are Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Igor Sechin (1960), and Vera Gaze (1899).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexander Petrov ranks 18. Before him are Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Semyon Alapin (1856), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), and Alexander Khalifman (1966). After him are Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Lev Alburt (1945), Artur Yusupov (1960), and Gennadi Sosonko (1943).

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