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Alexey Troitsky

1866 - 1942

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Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий; March 14, 1866 – August 1942; also Alexei, Troitzky, Troitzki) was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies (Seirawan 2003:91). Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexey Troitsky is the 3,093rd most popular writer (up from 3,514th in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,299th in 2019) and the 130th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Alexey Troitsky ranks 3,093 out of 7,302. Before him are Antoninus Liberalis, Dodie Smith, Victoria Benedictsson, Can Xue, Breyten Breytenbach, and Howard Fast. After him are John Edward Williams, Laza Kostić, Johann Heinrich Voss, Mukaghali Makatayev, Fumiko Enchi, and Francis Ponge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Alexey Troitsky ranks 75. Before him are Władysław Podkowiński, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Wakatsuki Reijirō, Carlos Schwabe, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera, and Ernest William Brown. After him are Julian Marchlewski, Erik Ivar Fredholm, J. M. E. McTaggart, Mario García Menocal, George Minne, and Paul Lincke. Among people deceased in 1942, Alexey Troitsky ranks 122. Before him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Joseph Schmidt, Ants Piip, and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. After him are Francis Younghusband, Léon Daudet, Eusebio Ayala, Yakov Perelman, Sébastien Faure, and Emma Calvé.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexey Troitsky ranks 1,096 out of 3,761. Before him are Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Alexander Kaidanovsky (1946), Pavel Kiselyov (1788), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Yuri Norstein (1941), and Genndy Tartakovsky (1970). After him are Vadim Krasnoselsky (1970), Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902), Andrei Amalrik (1938), Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), and Airat Ichmouratov (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Alexey Troitsky ranks 130. Before him are Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Şihabetdin Märcani (1818), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Igor Gouzenko (1919), and Philotheus of Pskov (1465). After him are Andrei Amalrik (1938), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Valentin Rasputin (1937), Viktor Astafyev (1924), and Agniya Barto (1906).

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