# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrei-zarin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:59.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrei-zarin"
name: "Andrei Zarin"
slug: "andrei-zarin"
description: "Andrei Yefimovich Zarin was a Russian writer of popular novels and short stories, including crime fiction, in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in St Petersburg in the Russian Empire, graduating from the gymnasium and entering into Vilnius University in modern-day Lithuania in 1879. His first publications were economic articles in the Vilnius Gazette. He started publishing fiction in 1881. He was the editor of the journal Stars and Pictorial Review."
tagline: "Russian writer (1862–1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zarin_Andrey_Efimovitsch_1900-s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1862-05-16"
deathDate: "1929"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.97
  momentum:             2.413793103448276
  historical:           4.40648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اندريه زارين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Zarin"
    title: "Andrei Zarin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зарин, Андрей Ефимович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Андрей Ефимович Зарин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4187452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump