Art and Social Life by G. V. Plekhanov 1912
Alexander I (1777-1825) Russian Emperor (1801-25)
Alexinsky, Grigory Alexeyevich (b. 1879) Russian Social-Democrat; during the period of reaction (1907-10), one of the organisers of the anti-Party group Vperyod, subsequently a reactionary
Aristogeiton (6th century B.C.) Athenian who was put to death for conspiring against the tyrants Hipparchus and Hippias
Aristotle (384-322 B. C.) Great thinker of Ancient Greece
Augier, Emile (1820-1889) French playwright
Banville, Théodore de (1823-1891) French poet
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules (1808-1889) French writer, representative of reactionary romanticism
Barrès, Auguste Maurice (1862-1923) French writer and publicist, ideologist of Catholicism
Bassompierre, François de (1579-1646) French marshal and diplomatist
Bastiat, Frédéric (1801-1850) French vulgar economist, preached harmony of labour and capital
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1862) French poet
Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich (1811-1848) Russian revolutionary democrat, literary critic and publicist
Benkendorf, Alexander Christophorovich, Count (1783-1844) Chief of political police in Russia under Nicholas I
Bertrand, Louis Marie Emile (1866-1941) French writer and literary critic
Bogdanov A. (Malinovsky, Alexander Alexandrovich) (1873-1928) Russian philosopher, sociologist and economist; Social-Democrat; in philosophy displayed revisionist views
Böhm von Bawerk, Eugen (1851-1914) Austrian vulgar economist
Bourget, Paul (1852-1935) French writer and literary critic
Brandes, Georg (1842-1927) Danish literary historian and publicist
Cassagne, Albert (1869-1916) French literary critic and historian
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gavrilovich (1828-1889) Russian revolutionary democrat, utopian socialist and materialist philosopher
Cimabue, Giovanni (Cenni di Pepo) (1240-c. 1302) Italian artist
Curel, François de (1854-1928) French playwright
David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825) outstanding French artist
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) French artist, representative of romanticism
Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1836-1861) Russian revolutionary democrat, literary critic and publicist
Du Bois, Reymond Emil (1818-1896) German physiologist; agnostic
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1319) Italian painter, founder of the Sienese school of painting
Dumas fils, Alexandre (1824-1895) French novelist and playwright
Dupont, Pierre (1821-1870) French poet
Fedotov, Pavel Andreyevich (1815-1852) Russian painter
Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804-1872) German materialist philosopher
Filosofov, Dmitry Vladimirovich (1872-1940) Russian publicist and critic; mystic
Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) French realist writer
Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872) French romantic novelist and poet
Giotto di Bondone (1266 [or 1276]-1337) Italian painter, father of realism in Renaissance painting
Gleizes, Albert (1881-1953) French painter, outstanding representative and theoretician of cubism
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich (1809-1852) Russian writer
Golitsyn, Dmitry Alexeyevich, Count (1734-1803) Russian scholar, writer and diplomatist; author of works on natural science, philosophy and economics
Goncourt, Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules Alfred de (1830-1870) French writers, representatives of naturalism
Grasset, Joseph (1849-1918) French professor of medicine and philosopher
Hamsun, Knut (Pedersen) (1859-1952) Norwegian writer of reactionary political views
Harmodius (6th century B. C.) Athenian who was executed for conspiring against the tyrants Hipparchus and Hippias
Helvetius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771) French materialist philosopher
Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870) Russian revolutionary democrat, writer, materialist philosopher
Hippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna (1869-1945) Russian reactionary poetess, representative of symbolism
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) French novelist and poet, an outstanding representative of romanticism
Huret, Jules (1864-1915) French journalist, published several collections of quotations of noted personalities on literature, public life, etc.
Huysmans, Joris Karl (1848-1907) French symbolist writer; decadent
Ivanov, Alexander Andreyevich (1806-1858) Russian painter
Ivanov-Razumnik (Razumnik Vasilyevich Ivanov) (1878-1945) Russian Narodnik, literary critic and sociologist
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) German philosopher, founder of German classical idealism
Kramskoi, Ivan Nikolayevich (1837-1887) Russian painter and public figure
Kukolnik, Nestor Vasilyevich (1809-1868) Russian reactionary novelist and playwright
Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869) French poet, historian and politician
Lange, Friedrich Albert (1828-1875) German Neo-Kantian philosopher, economist
Laprade, Pierre Martin Victor (1812-1883) French poet
Laurent-Pichat, Léon (1823-1886) French poet and publicist
Leconte de Lisle, Charles (1818-1894) French poet
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) French painter
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian painter, scientist and engineer, one of the greatest men of the Renaissance
Leroux, Pierre (1797-1871) French utopian socialist
Louis XIV (1638-1715) King of France (1643-1715)
Louis Philippe (1713-1850) King of France (1830-1848)
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich (1875-1933) Prominent Russian Bolshevik; subsequently Soviet statesman and public figure, publicist and literary critic; during the years of reaction (1907-10), member of the anti-Party Vperyod group
Mackey, John Heinrich (1864-1933) German poet of Scottish origin, anarchist
Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Mauclair, Camille (1872-1945) French writer and art critic
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich (1866-1941) Russian novelist and poet, religious philosopher
Metzinger, Jean (b. 1883) French artist, representative of cubism
Musset, Alfred de (1810-1857) French romantic poet
Napoleon I Bonaparte (1769-1821) Emperor of France (1804-14 and 1815)
Napoleon III (1809-1873) Emperor of France (1852-70)
Narezhny, Vasily Trofimovich (1780-1825) Russian writer
Nekrasov, Nikolai Alexeyevich (1821-1878) Russian poet, revolutionary democrat
Nero (37-68) Roman emperor (54-68)
Nicholas I (1796-1855) Emperor of Russia (1825-55)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900) German reactionary idealist philosopher
Ostrovsky, Alexander Nikolayevich (1823-1886) Russian playwright
Paskevich, Ivan Fyodorovich (1782-1856) Russian general, reactionary statesman
Perov, Vasily Grigoryevich (1833 [34]-1882) Russian painter and graphic artist
Perugino (Pietro di Christophoro Vannucci) (c. 1445-1523) Italian painter of the Renaissance
Peter I (1672-1725) Russian tsar (1682-1721) and Emperor of Russia (1721-1725)
Pisarev, Dmitry Ivanovich (1840-1869) Russian literary critic and publicist, revolutionary democrat
Plato (427-347 B.C.) Idealist philosopher of ancient Greece
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) American writer
Polevoi, Ksenofont Alexeyevich (1801-1867) Russian writer and critic, brother of N.A. Polevoi
Polevoi, Nikolai Alexeyevich (1796-1846) Russian journalist, writer and historian
Przybyszewski, Stanislaw (1868-1927) Polish writer, decadent and mystic
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837) Great Russian poet
Raphael, Sanzio (1483-1520) Great Italian painter
Razumovsky, Alexei Kirillovich (1748-1822) Minister of Education under Alexander I
Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892) French historian of religion, idealist philosopher
Ricardo, David (1772-1823) English economist, an outstanding representative of bourgeois classical political economy
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) English theoretician of art, critic and publicist
Sand, George (pseudonym of Aurore Dudevant) (1804-1876) French novelist
Sergeyev-Tsensky, Sergei Nikolayevich (1875-1958) Russian Soviet writer
Shchedrin (Saltykov-Shchedrin), Mikhail Yevgrafovich (1826-1889) Russian satirist
Shchogolev, Pavel Yeliseyevich (1877-1931) Russian Soviet literary critic
Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Platon Alexandrovich (1790-1853) Minister of Education in Russia from 1850 to 1853
Sieyès, Abbé Emanuel Joseph (1748-1836) Leader in the French bourgeois revolution of the end of the 18th century
Soury, Jules-Auguste (1842-1915) French philosopher, Neo-Kantian
Speransky, Valentin Nikolayevich – historian of philosophy, privat-dozent of St. Petersburg University
Stasov, Vladimir Vasilyevich (1824-1906) Russian musical and art critic
Sudermann, Hermann (1857-1928) German playwright and novelist
Tabarant, Adolf (b. 1863) Belgian writer
Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinovich (1817-1875) Russian poet and playwright
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883) Russian writer
Uspensky, Gleb Ivanovich (1843-1902) Russian writer
Vigny, Alfred de (1797-1863) French romantic poet and novelist
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) German composer
Zola, Emile (1840-1902) French writer
Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich (1783-1852) Russian poet