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Symeon of Polotsk

1629 - 1680

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Symeon (Simeon) of Polotsk or Symeon Polotsky (Russian: Симео́н По́лоцкий; born as Samuel Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz, Russian: Самуи́л Петро́вский-Ситнянович; December 12, 1629 – August 25, 1680) was an academically-trained Baroque poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener of Belarusian descent who came from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Tsardom of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Symeon of Polotsk is the 3,319th most popular writer (down from 2,790th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 89th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 3,319 out of 7,302. Before him are Isotta Nogarola, Jacques Delille, Nikolay Nosov, Duarte Barbosa, Mia Couto, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. After him are Léon-Paul Fargue, Ibn Zaydún, Anatoly Rybakov, Harold Russell, Christopher Robin Milne, and Butrus al-Bustani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 18. Before him are Cornelis Tromp, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Laurent Cassegrain, and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert. After him are Niels Juel, and Agnes Block. Among people deceased in 1680, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 33. Before him are Peter Lely, Frans Post, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, and Marco Uccellini. After him are Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, and Wang Shimin.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 102 out of 368. Before him are Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Anatoly Chubais (1955), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Romuald Klim (1933), and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758). After him are Sergei Tumansky (1901), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Mikhail Myasnikovich (1950), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), and Aryna Sabalenka (1998).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Symeon of Polotsk ranks 18. Before him are Ales Adamovich (1927), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Itzhak Katzenelson (1886), and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758). After him are Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895), Ryhor Baradulin (1935), Alaiza Pashkevich (1876), and Thaddeus Bulgarin (1789).

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