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Gavrila Derzhavin

1743 - 1816

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Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (Russian: Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, IPA: [ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn] ; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally considered literary classicism, his best verse is rich with antitheses and conflicting sounds in a way reminiscent of John Donne and other metaphysical poets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gavrila Derzhavin is the 1,234th most popular writer (up from 1,404th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Russia (up from 501st in 2019) and the 49th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 1,234 out of 7,302. Before him are Laura Marx, Alexander Griboyedov, Karim Findi, Pierre de Marivaux, Egill Skallagrímsson, and John William Polidori. After him are B. H. Liddell Hart, Rasul Gamzatov, Lu You, Max Nordau, Charles Péguy, and Achilles Tatius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 17. Before him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, and Joseph Banks. After him are Edmund Cartwright, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova. Among people deceased in 1816, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 9. Before him are Pierre Augereau, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Frederick I of Württemberg, Francisco de Miranda, and Johann Hieronymus Schröter. After him are Adam Ferguson, Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Roger Ducos, François-André Vincent, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 416 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Yury Luzhkov (1936), Aleksandr Akimov (1953), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), and Dmitry Pozharsky (1577). After him are Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Irving Berlin (1888), Lauri Kristian Relander (1883), and Daniil Kharms (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Gavrila Derzhavin ranks 49. Before him are Nikolai Leskov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), and Alexander Griboyedov (1795). After him are Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Daniil Kharms (1905), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Andrei Platonov (1899), and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826).

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