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Dmitry Likhachov

1906 - 1999

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature. He was revered as "the last of old St Petersburgers", and as "a guardian of national culture". Due to his high profile as a Soviet dissident writer, social critic, and activist during his later life, Likhachev was often referred to as "Russia's conscience". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Likhachov is the 3,734th most popular writer (down from 2,858th in 2019), the 1,320th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 161st most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 3,734 out of 7,302. Before him are Philipp Nicolai, Pavel Bazhov, Chairil Anwar, Gioconda Belli, Mikhail Prishvin, and Francisco Coloane. After him are Peter Gould, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Anthony Hope, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, and Helen Churchill Candee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 210. Before him are Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, S. D. Burman, Jan Werich, Renato Cesarini, Alf Andersen, and Joan Blondell. After him are Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Charles Malik, Karl Sesta, František Svoboda, Laurens van der Post, and Alexander Gelfond. Among people deceased in 1999, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 139. Before him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Olga Orozco, Harvey Postlethwaite, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Jürgen Moser, and Rudi Glöckner. After him are Maxim Munzuk, Tamás Mendelényi, Richard Kiley, Teuvo Aura, Nise da Silveira, and Tatevik Sazandaryan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 1,320 out of 3,761. Before him are Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909), Aleksei Serebryakov (1964), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Pavel Bazhov (1879), and Mikhail Prishvin (1873). After him are Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Konstantin Savitsky (1844), Alexei Lubimov (1944), Nur Devlet (null), Yuri Lyubimov (1917), and Boris Rosing (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Dmitry Likhachov ranks 161. Before him are Yuli Daniel (1925), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), Andreï Makine (1957), Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Pavel Bazhov (1879), and Mikhail Prishvin (1873). After him are Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Anton Delvig (1798), Daniil Granin (1919), Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), and Konstantin Fedin (1892).

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