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Nestor the Chronicler

1056 - 1106

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Nestor the Chronicler or Nestor the Hagiographer (Church Slavonic: Нестор Летописец, romanized: Nestor Letopisec; c. 1056 – c. 1114) was a monk from the Kievan Rus who is known to have written two saints' lives: the Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves and the Account about the Life and Martyrdom of the Blessed Passion Bearers Boris and Gleb. Traditional historiography has also attributed to him the Primary Chronicle (PVL), the most revered chronicle of Kievan Rus', which earned him the nickname "the Chronicler". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nestor the Chronicler is the 647th most popular writer (up from 756th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Nestor the Chronicler was a Greek historian who wrote about the Trojan War and the events that followed. He is most famous for his writings on the Trojan War.

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Among writers, Nestor the Chronicler ranks 647 out of 7,302. Before him are Hellanicus of Lesbos, Giambattista Basile, Tibor Sekelj, Anton Makarenko, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Laurence Sterne. After him are Klaus Mann, Eugenio Montale, Jon Fosse, Alexander Pope, Irène Némirovsky, and Jacob L. Moreno.

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Among people born in 1056, Nestor the Chronicler ranks 2. Before him is William II of England. After him are Al-Muqtadi, Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut, Judith of Bohemia, Reginald II, Count of Burgundy, Hildebert, Sæmundr fróði, and Cecilia of Normandy. Among people deceased in 1106, Nestor the Chronicler ranks 2. Before him is Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Magnus, Duke of Saxony, Benno, Minamoto no Yoshiie, and Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nestor the Chronicler ranks 83 out of 1,365. Before him are Baal Shem Tov (1700), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Larisa Latynina (1934), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), and Anton Makarenko (1888). After him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), and Oleg Blokhin (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Nestor the Chronicler ranks 17. Before him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Anton Makarenko (1888). After him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836).

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