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Alexander Pushkin

1799 - 1837

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Pushkin is the 45th most popular writer (down from 36th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Russia (down from 15th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Pushkin is most famous for his poetry. He is considered to be the father of Russian literature.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Pushkin ranks 45 out of 7,302. Before him are Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. After him are Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, and Marcel Proust.

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Among people born in 1799, Alexander Pushkin ranks 2. Before him is Honoré de Balzac. After him are Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Mary Anning, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Fromental Halévy, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Karl Bryullov. Among people deceased in 1837, Alexander Pushkin ranks 2. Before him is William IV of the United Kingdom. After him are Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Charles Fourier, Hortense de Beauharnais, John Constable, Akbar II, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Büchner, and François Gérard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Pushkin ranks 19 out of 3,761. Before him are Peter the Great (1672), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), and Boris Yeltsin (1931). After him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), and Yuri Andropov (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Pushkin ranks 4. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), and Anton Chekhov (1860). After him are Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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