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Dmitry Pisarev

1840 - 1868

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Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev (14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1840 – 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history. A critique of his philosophy became the subject of Fyodor Dostoevsky's celebrated novel Crime and Punishment. Indeed, Pisarev's philosophy embraces the nihilist aims of negation and value-destruction; in freeing oneself from all human and moral authority, the nihilist becomes ennobled above the common masses and free to act according to sheer personal preference and usefulness. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Pisarev is the 2,945th most popular writer (up from 3,043rd in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,124th in 2019) and the 119th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Dmitry Pisarev ranks 2,945 out of 7,302. Before him are David Albahari, K. A. Applegate, Edvard Kocbek, José Martínez Ruiz, Lucrezia Marinella, and Abdul-Qādir Bedil. After him are Champfleury, Knud Knudsen, Günter Eich, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and Victor Segalen.

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Among people born in 1840, Dmitry Pisarev ranks 48. Before him are Charles Booth, Akaki Tsereteli, Édouard André, Alexander Kovalevsky, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, and Gabriel von Max. After him are Abraham Goldfaden, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Edmond Audran, Jeanna Bauck, William Graham Sumner, and Thomas Nast. Among people deceased in 1868, Dmitry Pisarev ranks 37. Before him are Carlo Matteucci, Emanuel Leutze, Peter Julian Eymard, Kit Carson, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Moritz Hauptmann, Giuseppe Abbati, Antonio Bertoloni, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Adolphe d'Archiac, and Bernardo Berro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Pisarev ranks 1,016 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1907), Arkady Rotenberg (1951), Nikolai Zverev (1832), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Theophan the Recluse (1815), and Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850). After him are Boris Barnet (1902), Fyodor Sergeyev (1883), Eleanor of Prussia (1583), Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), and Boris Pilnyak (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Dmitry Pisarev ranks 119. Before him are Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), and Leah Goldberg (1911). After him are Boris Pilnyak (1894), Sergei Nilus (1862), Friedrich von Lütke (1797), Leonid Leonov (1899), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), and Şihabetdin Märcani (1818).

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