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The 19th century

Whose names filled the books of the 19th century - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.

Talked about then

Whose names appeared most in Russian books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures6.7
  2. 2Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers3.1
  3. 3Nikolai Rezanov1764-1807 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.3
  4. 4Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians0.99
  5. 5Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century0.86
  6. 6Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.86
  7. 7Nikolay Karamzin1766-1826 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.85
  8. 8Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.82
  9. 9Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.66
  10. 10Avraamy Palitsyn1550-1626 · 16th century · Writers0.64
  11. 11Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.62
  12. 12Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.62
  13. 13Elizabeth of Russia1709-1761 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.58
  14. 14Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.57
  15. 15Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.53
  16. 16Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · 16th century · Writers0.53
  17. 17Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia1783-1801 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.43
  18. 18Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia1864-1931 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.42
  19. 19Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia1832-1909 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.42
  20. 20Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia1827-1892 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.39
  21. 21Grigory Orlov1734-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.38
  22. 22Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.36
  23. 23Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.35
  24. 24Alexander Bestuzhev1797-1837 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.34
  25. 25Ivan the Terrible1530-1584 · 16th century · Politicians0.33
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Fyodor Dostoevsky1821-1881 · Russia · Writers17 decades
  2. 2Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · Russia · Writers18 decades
  3. 3Alexander Pushkin1799-1837 · Russia · Writers21 decades
  4. 4Anton Chekhov1860-1904 · Russia · Writers15 decades
  5. 5Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893 · Russia · Musicians10 decades
  6. 6Nikolai Gogol1809-1852 · Russia · Writers19 decades
  7. 7Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · Russia · Historical Figures21 decades
  8. 8Dmitri Mendeleev1834-1907 · Russia · Scientists11 decades
  9. 9Alexander II of Russia1818-1881 · Russia · Historical Figures17 decades
  10. 10Nicholas I of Russia1796-1855 · Russia · Models19 decades
  11. 11Mikhail Lermontov1814-1841 · Russia · Writers15 decades
  12. 12Alexander III of Russia1845-1894 · Russia · Historical Figures16 decades
  13. 13Taras Shevchenko1814-1861 · Russia · Writers13 decades
  14. 14Ivan Pavlov1849-1936 · Russia · Scientists16 decades
  15. 15Peter Kropotkin1842-1921 · Russia · Activists11 decades
  16. 16Konstantin Tsiolkovsky1857-1935 · Russia · Scientists5 decades
  17. 17Ilya Repin1844-1930 · Russia · Artists10 decades
  18. 18Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844-1908 · Russia · Musicians9 decades
  19. 19Konstantin Stanislavski1863-1938 · Russia · Actors9 decades
  20. 20Modest Mussorgsky1839-1881 · Russia · Musicians11 decades
  21. 21Ivan Turgenev1818-1883 · Russia · Writers6 decades
  22. 22Ivan Aivazovsky1817-1900 · Russia · Artists2 decades
  23. 23Nikolay Nekrasov1821-1877 · Russia · Writers13 decades
  24. 24Fyodor Tyutchev1803-1873 · Russia · Writers11 decades
  25. 25Alexander Borodin1833-1887 · Russia · Musicians8 decades
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How to read these rankings

  • Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
  • Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
  • Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.