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Alexander Shishkov

1754 - 1841

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Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Семёнович Шишко́в; 20 March [O.S. 9 March] 1754 – 21 April [O.S. 9 April] 1841) was a Russian writer, literary critic, philologist, memoirist, military and statesman, Admiral (1824). He created a new trend in Russian literature, called "postafactum" [sic], a type of archaism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Shishkov is the 5,466th most popular writer (down from 5,210th in 2019), the 2,057th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,948th in 2019) and the 249th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexander Shishkov ranks 5,466 out of 7,302. Before him are William Muir, Hellmuth Karasek, August Gailit, Peter Englund, Kang Kyeong-ae, and Ghazaros Aghayan. After him are Holly Black, Sven Delblanc, Max Eastman, Dorothy Allison, Isabel-Clara Simó, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Alexander Shishkov ranks 53. Before him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Grace Elliott, Vincenzo Monti, George Crabbe, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, and Juan Meléndez Valdés. After him are Archibald Menzies, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Abraham Baldwin, and Joel Barlow. Among people deceased in 1841, Alexander Shishkov ranks 43. Before him are Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, David Don, Alexander Burnes, Jørgen Jørgensen, and David Wilkie. After him are Francis Leggatt Chantrey, and Astley Cooper.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Shishkov ranks 2,057 out of 3,761. Before him are Musa Gareyev (1922), Galina Gorokhova (1938), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1930), Georgi Yumatov (1926), Lyudmila Narusova (1951), and Mariya Smirnova (1920). After him are Tamara Moskvina (1941), Mikhail Somov (1908), Mikhail Tyurin (1960), Sergey Urusevsky (1908), Vassili Poyarkov (null), and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexander Shishkov ranks 249. Before him are Mikhail Shishkin (1961), Sergey Gorodetsky (1884), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Lev Mei (1822), and Nikolai Pogodin (1900). After him are Pentti Saarikoski (1937), Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950), Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Darya Dontsova (1952), Yuri Samarin (1819), and Vasily Belov (1932).

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