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Leonid Andreyev

1871 - 1919

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Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age literary period. Andreyev's style combines the elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Of his 25 plays, his 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped is regarded as his finest achievement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Andreyev is the 1,129th most popular writer (down from 1,100th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Russia (up from 386th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Russian Writer.

Leonid Andreyev is most famous for writing the short story "The Red Laugh" in which he explores the idea of how laughter can be a sign of madness and evil.

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Among writers, Leonid Andreyev ranks 1,129 out of 7,302. Before him are Diana Wynne Jones, Chinua Achebe, Jorge Semprún, Ahmad Khani, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Will Durant. After him are Sugawara no Michizane, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Walter Lippmann, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Stobaeus.

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Among people born in 1871, Leonid Andreyev ranks 29. Before him are Giacomo Balla, Stjepan Radić, William Stern, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Cordell Hull. After him are Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Zermelo, Willem Mengelberg, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Nicolae Iorga, and Sergei Bulgakov. Among people deceased in 1919, Leonid Andreyev ranks 29. Before him are Johannes Rydberg, Loránd Eötvös, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Kurt Eisner, Edward Charles Pickering, and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Sophia Tolstaya, Habibullah Khan, Franz Mehring, Henry J. Heinz, Prince John of the United Kingdom, and Henry Gantt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 384 out of 3,761. Before him are Eugen Sandow (1867), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Sergei Skripal (1951), and Ilya Ulyanov (1831). After him are Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Andre Geim (1958), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Andrei Bely (1880), and Aleksandr Karelin (1967).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Leonid Andreyev ranks 44. Before him are Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Nikolai Leskov (1831). After him are Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), and Rasul Gamzatov (1923).

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