WRITER

Ivan Turgenev

1818 - 1883

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( toor-GHEN-yef, -⁠GAYN-; Russian: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1818 – 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Turgenev is the 159th most popular writer (up from 166th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Russia (up from 61st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Writer.

Ivan Turgenev is most famous for his novel Fathers and Sons, which is about the conflict between the old and new generations.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Turgenev ranks 159 out of 7,302. Before him are Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, Elias Canetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Ivan Turgenev ranks 7. Before him are Karl Marx, James Prescott Joule, Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Emily Brontë. After him are Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, Tewodros II, and Hermann Kolbe. Among people deceased in 1883, Ivan Turgenev ranks 4. Before him are Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and Édouard Manet. After him are Gustave Doré, Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Dayananda Saraswati, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Joseph Plateau.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Turgenev ranks 50 out of 3,761. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Alexander Nevsky (1220). After him are Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), and Wilhelm Wien (1864).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Turgenev ranks 12. Before him are Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Vladimir Nabokov (1899). After him are Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), and Sergei Yesenin (1895).

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