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Ivan Susanin

1501 - 1613

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Ivan Susanin (Russian: Иван Сусанин, IPA: [ɪˈvan sʊˈsanʲɪn]; died 1613) was a Russian national hero and martyr of the early-17th-century Time of Troubles. According to the popular legend, Polish troops seeking to kill Tsar Mikhail hired Susanin as a guide. Susanin persuaded them to take a secret path through the Russian forests, and neither they nor Susanin were ever heard from again. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Susanin is the 8,699th most popular politician (down from 7,784th in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from Russia (down from 737th in 2019) and the 228th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ivan Susanin ranks 8,699 out of 19,576Before him are Djehuti, Yaakov Dori, Teréz Brunszvik, King Xian of Zhou, Jan Tarnowski, and Hans van den Broek. After him are Eduardo Camaño, Louis, Count of Gravina, Jens Böhrnsen, Mátyás Szűrös, Ollanta Humala, and Kenneth II of Scotland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Ivan Susanin ranks 12Before him are Queen Munjeong, Sahib I Giray, Garcilaso de la Vega, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Leonhart Fuchs, and Bairam Khan. After him are Perino del Vaga, Maurice Scève, Hemu, and Francisco de Ulloa. Among people deceased in 1613, Ivan Susanin ranks 7Before him are Carlo Gesualdo, Sigismund Báthory, Anton Praetorius, Mateo Alemán, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Gabriel Báthory. After him are Cigoli, Giovanni Artusi, Johann Bauhin, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Hypatius Pociej, and Salima Sultan Begum.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Susanin ranks 765 out of 3,761Before him are Talabuga (1300), Yury Grigorovich (1927), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Vera Figner (1852), Erich von Drygalski (1865), and Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929). After him are Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Nina Berberova (1901), and Vasily Tropinin (1776).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Ivan Susanin ranks 228Before him are Yegor Gaidar (1956), Leonid Krasin (1870), Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł (1667), Faina Ranevskaya (1896), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), and Talabuga (1300). After him are Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Vladimir of Novgorod (1020), Pyotr Chaadayev (1794), Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (1860), Mikhail Speransky (1772), and Ivan Goremykin (1839).