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Cyril Toumanoff

1913 - 1997

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Cyril Leo Toumanoff (Georgian: კირილ თუმანოვი; Russian: Кирилл Львович Туманов; 10 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Georgian-American historian, and academic genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Byzantine Empire. Born in the Russian Empire into a princely family, Toumanoff escaped to the United States after the Russian Revolution. His works have significantly influenced the Western scholarship of the medieval Caucasus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cyril Toumanoff is the 415th most popular historian (down from 390th in 2019), the 1,779th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,697th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 415 out of 561. Before him are Gerhard Ritter, Neagu Djuvara, Francis Godwin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Boris Rybakov, and Riane Eisler. After him are Franz Theodor Kugler, Stephen Greenblatt, Boris Chicherin, Chimalpahin, Catharine Macaulay, and Mary Ritter Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 268. Before him are Minoru Honda, Bernard Lovell, Malcom McLean, Bahi Ladgham, Annette Rogers, and Taos Amrouche. After him are Philip Guston, Morton Gould, Kalervo Toivonen, Tibor Kemény, Guillermo Haro, and Gardnar Mulloy. Among people deceased in 1997, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 220. Before him are Karen Wetterhahn, Haruko Sugimura, Maria Wittek, Sotiria Bellou, Denver Pyle, and Richard Jaeckel. After him are Enrique Peralta Azurdia, Eugène Guillevic, Dharamvir Bharati, Zdeněk Mlynář, Shuhei Nishida, and Kiki Kogelnik.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 1,779 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Bortko (1946), Boris Ponomarev (1905), Mariya Dolina (1922), Vassily Maximov (1844), Nikolay Kasatkin (1859), and Andrey Voronikhin (1759). After him are Klara Guseva (1937), Mark Midler (1931), Natalya Arinbasarova (1946), Tatyana Vasilyeva (1947), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), and Yuri Nagibin (1920).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Cyril Toumanoff ranks 14. Before him are Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Serhii Plokhy (1957), Léon Poliakov (1910), Olena Apanovych (1919), and Boris Rybakov (1908). After him are Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Aron Gurevich (1924), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Irina Antonova (1922), and Timofey Granovsky (1813).

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