Sweep date: 2026-06-12. Method: Wikimedia Commons API (generator=search, prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|extmetadata), individual file pages verified. Licences taken from Commons extmetadata or the file description page — not assumed.
Catalogue
| id | type | subject | holding | source (Commons File: page) | licence | usable | localPath | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chertkov-photo-1883 | photo | V. G. Chertkov, portrait photograph | Wikimedia Commons | File:Vladimir_Chertkov.jpg | PD-RusEmpire / PD-US | yes | visuals/commons-chertkov-portrait-1883.jpg |
Photo by A. F. Eichenwald, 1883; sourced from tolstoy.ru |
| chertkov-painting-repin-1890s | portrait (oil) | V. G. Chertkov, painted portrait | National Museum, Warsaw (acc. 120625) | File:Repin_Vladimir_Chertkov.jpg | PD (Repin d. 1930, PD-old-80) | yes | visuals/commons-repin-chertkov-portrait-1890s.jpg |
Ilya Repin, oil on canvas, 100×75 cm, 1890s; donated to Warsaw 1935 |
| tolstoy-prokudin-gorsky-1908 | photo (colour) | Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana | Leo Tolstoy State Museum / Russian Ministry of Culture | File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg | PD (photographer d. 1944; PD-US) | yes | visuals/commons-tolstoy-prokudin-gorsky-1908.jpg |
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, 23 May 1908; first colour portrait taken in Russia; Valued Image on Commons |
| tolstoy-chess-chertkov-son-1907 | photo | Tolstoy playing chess with Vladimir Chertkov’s son | Wikimedia Commons | File:Tolstoy_playing_chess_with_the_son_of_Vladimir_Chertkov.png | PD (PD-1923, published before 1931) | yes | visuals/commons-tolstoy-chess-chertkov-son-1907.png |
Photographer: Vladimir Chertkov, 1907; source chesscafe.com |
| krug-chteniya-1906-title-page | title page | Круг чтения — first edition title page (1906) | feb-web.ru (Fundamental Electronic Library) | File:Ma1-055-.jpg | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | yes | visuals/commons-krug-chteniya-1906-title-page.jpg |
Source: feb-web.ru; used in both Russian and English Wikipedia articles for Круг чтения / Calendar of Wisdom |
| free-age-press-pamphlets-cover | title page (djvu) | Free Age Press — Tolstoy’s Pamphlets, title page | Wikimedia Commons / Archive.org | File:Tolstoy_-_Pamphlets.djvu | PD-old-80 / PD-US | yes (text) | — | DJVU only; no standalone cover image extracted. Publisher confirmed: Free Age Press, Christchurch (Tuckton). First page viewable via Commons viewer. Not downloaded as image. |
| sholem-aleichem-1907 | photo (portrait) | Sholom Aleichem | Beit Sholem Aleichem / Wikimedia Commons | File:Sholem_Aleichem_1907_(cropped).jpg | PD-US (published before 1931) | yes (US) | visuals/commons-sholem-aleichem-1907.jpg |
New York, 1907; author unknown; PD in US; may not be PD in all jurisdictions |
Downloaded vs. catalogued only
Downloaded (6 files):
commons-chertkov-portrait-1883.jpg— 96 KBcommons-repin-chertkov-portrait-1890s.jpg— 47 KBcommons-tolstoy-prokudin-gorsky-1908.jpg— 935 KBcommons-tolstoy-chess-chertkov-son-1907.png— 285 KBcommons-krug-chteniya-1906-title-page.jpg— 69 KBcommons-sholem-aleichem-1907.jpg— 195 KB
Catalogued only (not downloaded as image):
- Free Age Press pamphlets djvu (
File:Tolstoy_-_Pamphlets.djvu) — DJVU document, no standalone cover image file. The title page is viewable in the Commons viewer at page 1. If a raster cover is needed, it can be extracted from the djvu manually.
Gaps
Свободное слово / Free Word journal masthead (Chertkov’s abroad press, 1898–1905): No image found on Commons. A search for Freeword.jpg returned a 2008 Moscow almanac unrelated to Chertkov. No masthead, title page, or photograph of the Tuckton/Christchurch printing operation was found on Commons. This is the one genuine gap. The journal is documented in bibliographic sources (British Library, Hoover Institution) but no digitised cover image is on Commons.
Мысли мудрых людей (1903) / На каждый день — title page scans: The PSS PDF volumes (Vol. 42–44) contain the texts but are not scanned title-page images. No standalone scan found on Commons. The Круг чтения 1906 title page (Ma1-055-.jpg) serves as the compression-endpoint representative for the whole calendar-of-wisdom cluster.
Late Tolstoy at his writing desk (1900–1910): The Prokudin-Gorsky 1908 colour portrait covers the “late Tolstoy at work” target. The 1907 chess photo (taken by Chertkov himself) provides a secondary Chertkov-era Tolstoy image. No dedicated “at the writing desk” photograph was found on Commons, but the 1908 portrait is the canonical late-period image and is the stronger choice.