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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. 1L. L. Zamenhof1859-1917 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  2. 2Vladimir Bekhterev1857-1927 · Russia · Doctors5 decades
  3. 3Nikolay Gamaleya1859-1949 · Russia · Doctors2 decades
  4. 4Anna Kuliscioff1853-1925 · Russia · Doctors12 decades
  5. 5Sergey Petrovich Botkin1832-1889 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  6. 6Nikolay Sklifosovsky1836-1904 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  7. 7Ernst von Bergmann1836-1907 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  8. 8Nadezhda Suslova1843-1918 · Russia · Doctors0 decades
  9. 9Benedykt Dybowski1833-1930 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  10. 10Peter Lesgaft1837-1909 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  11. 11Friedrich Robert Faehlmann1798-1850 · Russia · Doctors0 decades
  12. 12Elias von Cyon1842-1912 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  13. 13Tytus Chałubiński1820-1889 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  14. 14Nil Filatov1847-1902 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  15. 15Maria Manaseina1841-1903 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  16. 16Sir James Wylie1768-1854 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  17. 17Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer1829-1902 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  18. 18Valentin Lvovich Bianchi1857-1920 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  19. 19Varvara Rudneva1844-1899 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  20. 20Karl Eduard von Liphart1808-1891 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  21. 21Nikolay Kulchitsky1856-1925 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  22. 22Volodymyr Karavayev1811-1892 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  23. 23Pyotr Kashchenko1858-1920 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  24. 24Anna Shabanova1842-1932 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
  25. 25Paul Näcke1851-1913 · Russia · Doctorsnot measured-
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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.