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Vladimir Propp

1895 - 1970

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Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Propp is the 2nd most popular critic, the 206th most popular biography from Russia (down from 190th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Critic.

Vladimir Propp was a Russian folklorist and scholar of comparative mythology. He is most famous for his analysis of the Russian folktale.

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Among critics, Vladimir Propp ranks 2 out of 9. Before him are John Ruskin. After him are Vissarion Belinsky, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Roger Ebert, Rosalind E. Krauss, Susanna Amatuni, Vincent Canby, and Todd McCarthy.

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Among people born in 1895, Vladimir Propp ranks 43. Before him are Machine Gun Kelly, Igor Tamm, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Rudolph Valentino, Folke Bernadotte, and Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia. After him are László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Vasily Blokhin, Oskar Dirlewanger, Stanley Rous, and Jürgen Stroop. Among people deceased in 1970, Vladimir Propp ranks 30. Before him are Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, Napoleon Hill, Eric Berne, and Artem Mikoyan. After him are Leslie Groves, Hugh Dowding, Bruce McLaren, Italo Gariboldi, Frances Farmer, and Władysław Anders.

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Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Propp ranks 206 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicholas Roerich (1874), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Grigori Perelman (1966), and Alexei Leonov (1934). After him are Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Mikhail Suslov (1902), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), and Sabina Spielrein (1885).

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Among critics born in Russia, Vladimir Propp ranks 1. 

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