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Marietta Shaginyan

1888 - 1982

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Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan (Russian: Мариэ́тта Серге́евна Шагиня́н; Armenian: Մարիետա Սերգեյի Շահինյան, April 2, 1888 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer, historian of Armenian descent. She was one of the "fellow travelers" of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico-fantastic fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marietta Shaginyan is the 4,263rd most popular writer (down from 4,108th in 2019), the 1,534th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,493rd in 2019) and the 190th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marietta Shaginyan ranks 4,263 out of 7,302Before her are Philip Reeve, Abdul Muis, Willibald Alexis, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Andrey Piontkovsky, and Konstantin Batyushkov. After her are Konstantin Aksakov, Sándor Weöres, Hadiya Davletshina, Lyuben Karavelov, Anne Tyler, and Emmanuel Roblès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Marietta Shaginyan ranks 169Before her are Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Alexander Chayanov, Margarita Xirgu, Gladys Cooper, Osip Brik, and Gustaf Molander. After her are Franciszek Kleeberg, Paul Bernays, Edith Evans, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Hans von Rosen, and Carlo Oriani. Among people deceased in 1982, Marietta Shaginyan ranks 173Before her are Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Alfons Dorfner, Carmelo Robledo, Irmgard Keun, Roberto Aballay, and Juan O'Gorman. After her are Vasily Rudenkov, Bernhard Rogge, Eino Penttilä, Hans Mock, Josef Bradl, and J. B. Kripalani.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Marietta Shaginyan ranks 1,534 out of 3,761Before her are Osip Brik (1888), Vladimir Krutov (1960), Abraham of Smolensk (1172), Nikolai Tanayev (1945), Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787). After her are Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Hadiya Davletshina (1905), Boris Morukov (1950), Mikhail Simonov (1929), and Galimzyan Khusainov (1937).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Marietta Shaginyan ranks 190Before her are Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), Osip Brik (1888), Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787). After her are Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Hadiya Davletshina (1905), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Andrei Bitov (1937), Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), and Yuri Bondarev (1924).