WRITER

Vladimir Korolenko

1853 - 1921

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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Korolenko is the 1,610th most popular writer (down from 1,509th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 212th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Vladimir Korolenko is most famous for his writing about the life of peasants in Russia.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 1,610 out of 7,302. Before him are Christian Morgenstern, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Charles Paul de Kock, Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine of Bologna, and Johann Jakob Bodmer. After him are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Ubertino of Casale, Ken Wilber, Constance Lloyd, and Laonikos Chalkokondyles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 32. Before him are Emil Jellinek, André Michelin, Francesco Filippini, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Flinders Petrie, and Antonio Salandra. After him are Vladimir Shukhov, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, André Messager, Roberto Ferruzzi, Sophia Perovskaya, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. Among people deceased in 1921, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 40. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou, Fernand Khnopff, Hara Takashi, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Nikolay Zhukovsky, and Živojin Mišić. After him are Hermann Paul, Jean-Paul Laurens, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady Randolph Churchill, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, and Nikolay Gumilyov.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 232 out of 1,365. Before him are Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Ruslana (1973), Ivan Bohun (1618), Olga Khokhlova (1891), Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), and Michael of Chernigov (1185). After him are Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), Paul Muni (1895), and Alexander Marinesko (1913).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vladimir Korolenko ranks 30. Before him are Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), and Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769). After him are Lina Kostenko (1930), Adam Zagajewski (1945), David Burliuk (1882), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), and Arseny Tarkovsky (1907).

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