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Vyacheslav Ivanov

1866 - 1949

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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Ива́нович Ива́нов, Italian: Venceslao Ivanov; 28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1866 – 16 July 1949) was a Russian poet, playwright, Classicist, and senior literary and dramatic theorist of the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic. Born into the lower Russian nobility, the multilingual Ivanov studied Classics, philology, and philosophy. He married the sister of a school friend and aspired to live as a conventional family man, until he discovered the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche while in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Ivanov is the 2,902nd most popular writer (down from 2,797th in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,043rd in 2019) and the 116th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 2,902 out of 7,302Before him are Johannes Mario Simmel, Ahron Daum, Michael Bond, Dionysius Periegetes, Vera Brittain, and Aleksander Fredro. After him are May Ziade, Shulamith Firestone, Tom Stoppard, Juan Gelman, Richard Hughes, and Eric Carle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 70Before him are António José de Almeida, Antonia Maury, Charles Mangin, Pyotr Lebedev, Stamata Revithi, and Władysław Podkowiński. After him are Wakatsuki Reijirō, Carlos Schwabe, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera, Ernest William Brown, Alexey Troitsky, and Julian Marchlewski. Among people deceased in 1949, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 89Before him are Tan Malaka, Boris Asafyev, Martin Knudsen, Ivan Poddubny, Traicho Kostov, and Josep Maria Jujol. After him are Othon Friesz, Wakatsuki Reijirō, Antoun Saadeh, Charles Dullin, Leonor Michaelis, and Wallace Beery.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 999 out of 3,761Before him are Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919), and Aleksandr Khinchin (1894). After him are Yusuf Akçura (1876), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), and Leah Goldberg (1911).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 116Before him are Franz Overbeck (1837), Countess of Ségur (1799), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), and Andrei Sinyavsky (1925). After him are Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), Leah Goldberg (1911), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Boris Pilnyak (1894), Sergei Nilus (1862), and Friedrich von Lütke (1797).