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Mikhail Pogodin

1800 - 1875

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Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Пого́дин; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1800 – 20 December [O.S. 8 December] 1875) was a Russian historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death of Nikolay Karamzin in 1826 and the rise of Sergey Solovyov in the 1850s. He is best remembered as a staunch proponent of the Normanist theory of Russian statehood. Pogodin's father was a serf housekeeper of Count Stroganov, and the latter ensured Mikhail's education at Moscow University. As the story goes, Pogodin the student lived from hand to mouth, because he spent his whole stipend on purchasing new volumes of Karamzin's history of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Pogodin is the 333rd most popular historian (down from 319th in 2019), the 1,384th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,405th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mikhail Pogodin ranks 333 out of 561. Before him are Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Ghazar Parpetsi, Al-Nuwayri, Johannes Meursius, A. J. P. Taylor, and Élisabeth Roudinesco. After him are Jean Delumeau, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, İlber Ortaylı, Joseph-François Michaud, Patricia Crone, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Mikhail Pogodin ranks 58. Before him are Joseph von Führich, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Tokugawa Nariaki, Roberto de Visiani, Sultan bin Ahmad, and Sadeq Khan Zand. After him are Nat Turner, Kitsos Tzavelas, Otto August Rosenberger, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, and John Phillips. Among people deceased in 1875, Mikhail Pogodin ranks 57. Before him are Johann Karl Rodbertus, Francisco Coll Guitart, Atanasio Aguirre, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Maria Röhl, and Isidore Pils. After him are Charles Grandison Finney, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, William Sterndale Bennett, and Fyodor Bruni.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Pogodin ranks 1,384 out of 3,761. Before him are Elena Mukhina (1960), Slava Polunin (1950), Nina Grebeshkova (1930), Ivan Aksakov (1823), Grigory Romanov (1923), and Sergey Solovyov (1820). After him are Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Vladimir Zeldin (1915), Lev Dyomin (1926), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Igor Strelkov (1970), and Marie Vassilieff (1884).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Mikhail Pogodin ranks 9. Before him are Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), and Jacob Theodor Klein (1685). After him are Serhii Plokhy (1957), Léon Poliakov (1910), Olena Apanovych (1919), Boris Rybakov (1908), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), and Boris Chicherin (1828).

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