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Yakov Polonsky

1819 - 1898

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Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (Russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1819 – 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1898) was a leading Pushkinist poet who wrote poems faithful to the traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky attended the Moscow University, where he befriended Apollon Grigoryev and Afanasy Fet. Three young and promising poets wrote pleasing and elegant poems, emulating Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. He graduated from the university in 1844, publishing his first collection of poems the same year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Polonsky is the 5,885th most popular writer (down from 5,665th in 2019), the 2,234th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,154th in 2019) and the 261st most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Yakov Polonsky ranks 5,885 out of 7,302. Before him are Ewa Lipska, Frederick Rolfe, Dragutin Tadijanović, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Richard Hoggart, and Algis Budrys. After him are Helen Hunt Jackson, Julie Garwood, Alfredo Bryce, Roshanara Begum, Ingrid Jonker, and Nikolai Aseev.

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Among people born in 1819, Yakov Polonsky ranks 96. Before him are William Powell Frith, William Muir, Alexandru G. Golescu, Alexander Melville Bell, Yuri Samarin, and Martin Johnson Heade. After him are Monier Monier-Williams, William Rosecrans, Henry Tate, Samuel Brannan, and John W. Geary. Among people deceased in 1898, Yakov Polonsky ranks 78. Before him are Luiza Pesjak, Emil Hartmann, Henry Liddell, Yelena Polenova, John Hopkinson, and Thomas F. Bayard. After him are George Grey, Don Carlos Buell, William Rosecrans, Samuel Plimsoll, Georg Bühler, and Benjamin Mountfort.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 2,234 out of 3,761. Before him are Yury Usachov (1957), Lyudmila Shishova (1940), Alexander Popov (1971), Boris Mayorov (1938), Andrei Fayt (1903), and Algis Budrys (1931). After him are Alexey Gribov (1902), Andrei Okounkov (1969), Aleksandr Klepikov (1950), Nikolai Aseev (1889), Denis Urubko (1973), and Kazimierz Laskowski (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yakov Polonsky ranks 261. Before him are Vasily Belov (1932), Majit Gafuri (1880), Semyon Nadson (1862), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Vladislav Krapivin (1938), and Algis Budrys (1931). After him are Nikolai Aseev (1889), Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817), Fedor Samokhin (1918), Aleksandr Chakovsky (1913), Vladimir Bogomolov (1924), and Qaysin Quli (1917).

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