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Nikolay Karamzin

1766 - 1826

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Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1766 – 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1826) was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Karamzin is the 818th most popular writer (up from 969th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 338th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Writer.

Nikolay Karamzin is most famous for his work in 1810, "History of the Russian State from the Earliest Times."

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Among writers, Nikolay Karamzin ranks 818 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Ludlum, William Saroyan, Masaru Emoto, Alexander Blok, Julius Fučík, and Gerard of Cremona. After him are James Jones, Aelia Eudocia, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Colleen McCullough, Zeb-un-Nissa, and Wilhelm Hauff.

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Among people born in 1766, Nikolay Karamzin ranks 7. Before him are John Dalton, Thomas Robert Malthus, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Charlotte, Princess Royal, and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy. After him are Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, William Hyde Wollaston, Johanna Schopenhauer, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, and Maine de Biran. Among people deceased in 1826, Nikolay Karamzin ranks 14. Before him are René Laennec, Joseph Proust, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Stamford Raffles, and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. After him are Frederica of Baden, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Johann Elert Bode, Levin August von Bennigsen, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Johann Baptist von Spix.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Karamzin ranks 273 out of 3,761. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Alexander Blok (1880), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856). After him are Valery Gerasimov (1955), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), Dmitry Yazov (1924), and Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolay Karamzin ranks 29. Before him are Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Alexander Blok (1880). After him are Arthur Adamov (1908), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), and Henri Troyat (1911).

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