# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-uspensky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:26:11.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-uspensky"
name: "Nikolai Uspensky"
slug: "nikolai-uspensky"
description: "Nikolai Vasilyevich Uspensky was a Russian writer, and a cousin of fellow writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky wrote extensively about the realities of peasant life in rural Russia around the time of the Emancipation Act of 1861 by Tsar Alexander II, achieving critical and commercial success. After experiencing increasing alienation and career decline, Uspensky committed suicide on 2 November 1889."
tagline: "Russian writer and journalist (1837–1889)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolay_Vasilyevich_Uspensky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-05-31"
deathDate: "1889-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.678690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Nikolai Uspensky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "نيكولاي أوسبينسكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيكولاى اوسبينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Uspenski"
    title: "Nikolay Uspenski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Wassiljewitsch_Uspenski"
    title: "Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Uspenski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Uspensky"
    title: "Nikolai Uspensky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Vasil'evi%C4%8D_Uspenskij"
    title: "Nikolaj Vasil'evič Uspenskij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Успенский, Николай Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A3%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Николай Успенский"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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