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Helena Blavatsky

1831 - 1891

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née Hahn von Rottenstern; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian-born mystic and writer who emigrated to the United States where she co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of Theosophy as a belief system. Born into an aristocratic family in Yekaterinoslav, Blavatsky traveled widely around the empire as a child. Largely self-educated, she developed an interest in Western esotericism during her teenage years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helena Blavatsky is the 7th most popular occultist (down from 5th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Occultist.

Helena Blavatsky was a Russian-born author and occultist who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Her most famous work is "The Secret Doctrine," which was published in 1888.

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Among occultists, Helena Blavatsky ranks 7 out of 41. Before her are Nostradamus, Grigori Rasputin, Aleister Crowley, Baba Vanga, John Dee, and Anton LaVey. After her are Count of St. Germain, Éliphas Lévi, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, and Edgar Cayce.

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Among people born in 1831, Helena Blavatsky ranks 4. Before her are James Clerk Maxwell, John Stith Pemberton, and Frederick III, German Emperor. After her are Sitting Bull, James A. Garfield, Emperor Kōmei, Richard Dedekind, Xianfeng Emperor, Savitribai Phule, Leo von Caprivi, and Lucy Webb Hayes. Among people deceased in 1891, Helena Blavatsky ranks 3. Before her are Arthur Rimbaud, and Nikolaus Otto. After her are Georges Seurat, Pedro II of Brazil, John A. Macdonald, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, P. T. Barnum, Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Helena Blavatsky ranks 20 out of 1,365. Before her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Hafsa Sultan (1479), and Joseph Conrad (1857). After her are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Ukraine

Among occultists born in Ukraine, Helena Blavatsky ranks 1. 

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