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Nikolay Chernyshevsky

1828 - 1889

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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Chernyshevsky is the 724th most popular writer (down from 629th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Russia (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Writer.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky is most famous for his novel "What Is To Be Done?"

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 724 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Loti, Kassia, Marie de France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Pietro Bembo. After him are Tirso de Molina, Ed McBain, Columella, Theodore the Studite, Lucan, and Jerry Falwell.

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Among people born in 1828, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 11. Before him are Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After him are Albert Marth, Ferdinand Cohn, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Albert of Saxony, Louise of the Netherlands, and John Langdon Down. Among people deceased in 1889, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 13. Before him are Yohannes IV, Luís I of Portugal, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Father Damien, Alexandre Cabanel, and Mihai Eminescu. After him are Wilhelm Tempel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Maria Mitchell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 230 out of 3,761. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Gustav Bauer (1870), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), The French Angel (1903), Gherman Titov (1935), and Viktor Zubkov (1941). After him are Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Nikolay Basov (1922), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Stenka Razin (1630), and Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolay Chernyshevsky ranks 26. Before him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Marina Tsvetaeva (1892). After him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Alexander Blok (1880), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Arthur Adamov (1908), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), and Varlam Shalamov (1907).

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