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Nestor Kukolnik

1809 - 1868

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Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik (Russian: Не́стор Васи́льевич Ку́кольник) (1809–1868) was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin. Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental. Today, he is best remembered for having contributed to the libretto of the first Russian opera, A Life for the Tsar by Mikhail Glinka. Glinka also set many of his lyrics to music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nestor Kukolnik is the 5,228th most popular writer (down from 4,962nd in 2019), the 1,930th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,851st in 2019) and the 237th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nestor Kukolnik ranks 5,228 out of 7,302. Before him are Remco Campert, Dorji Wangmo, Jenny Erpenbeck, Wacław Potocki, Charlotte Casiraghi, and F. Sionil José. After him are José María de Pereda, Damon Knight, Gilbert Adair, Yambo Ouologuem, Marie Noël, and Frank Heller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Nestor Kukolnik ranks 66. Before him are Aleksey Koltsov, William B. Travis, Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Karl Bodmer, Thomas Campbell Eyton, and Louis Meijer. After him are Giuseppe Giusti, Svend Foyn, Juan Antonio Pezet, Sterling Price, Ștefan Golescu, and George Engelmann. Among people deceased in 1868, Nestor Kukolnik ranks 58. Before him are Constantin Negruzzi, Halfdan Kjerulf, Júlia Szendrey, Gennaios Kolokotronis, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, and William Rutter Dawes. After him are Thaddeus Stevens, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Laura Secord, Carl Mayet, Benizelos Roufos, and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nestor Kukolnik ranks 1,930 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Milyutin (1818), Eugen Walaschek (1917), Daniil Medvedev (1996), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Max Jakobson (1923), and Nikolai Menshutkin (1842). After him are Victor Chizhikov (1935), Natalya Krachkovskaya (1938), Boris Kurakin (1676), Otto von Böhtlingk (1815), Oscar Grégoire (1877), and Vikenty Veresaev (1867).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nestor Kukolnik ranks 237. Before him are Dmitry Furmanov (1891), Vladimir Makanin (1937), M. Ageyev (1898), Nikolai Klyuev (1884), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), and Alexander Ablesimov (1742). After him are Vikenty Veresaev (1867), Abdulla Aliş (1908), Viktoriya Tokareva (1937), Lev Kassil (1905), Platon Oyunsky (1893), and Mikhail Shishkin (1961).

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