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Henri Troyat

1911 - 2007

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Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; 1 November [O.S. 19 October] 1911 – 2 March 2007) was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Troyat is the 1,007th most popular writer (up from 1,050th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from Russia (up from 373rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Writer.

Henri Troyat is most famous for his biographies of Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henri Troyat ranks 1,007 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Andrew of Crete, Agathon, Bettina von Arnim, Ouyang Xiu, and E. M. Forster. After him are Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dalton Trumbo, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Khachatur Abovian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Henri Troyat ranks 58. Before him are Ernesto Sabato, Herta Oberheuser, J. L. Austin, Gustav Wagner, Bruno Kreisky, and Cantinflas. After him are Vincent Price, Alfonso García Robles, Ashok Kumar, Alfred Naujocks, Brian O'Nolan, and George Stigler. Among people deceased in 2007, Henri Troyat ranks 43. Before him are Alan MacDiarmid, Paul Lauterbur, Richard Rorty, Stanley Miller, Jane Wyman, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.. After him are Arawa Kimura, Momofuku Ando, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Abbé Pierre, John Backus, and Oscar Peterson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Henri Troyat ranks 338 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Valery Leontiev (1949), and Kirill Meretskov (1897). After him are Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), and Michael Chekhov (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Henri Troyat ranks 35. Before him are Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Arthur Adamov (1908), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), and Vasily Zhukovsky (1783). After him are Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817).

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