Sweep date: 2026-06-08. Channels searched: local primary-sources mirror, Wikimedia Commons API (generator=search + imageinfo), tolstoy.ru mirror. Andreyev-Burlak: no image found on Commons or via search (no hits for any spelling variant). State Tolstoy Museum (tolstoy-iss.kamiscloud.ru) and Goskatalog (web.goskatalog.ru) not accessible programmatically from this session — noted as items to request manually. Maude translation PDF (Commons) noted but not downloaded (text, not image). Note on Pasternak: Leonid Pasternak did NOT produce an illustration cycle for The Kreutzer Sonata; his Tolstoy work concentrated on Resurrection and War and Peace. No Pasternak Kreutzer items found.
| id | type | subject | related entity | holding | access | rights | licence | usable | source URL | local path | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIS-01 | portrait (oil) | Ilya Repin — Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887) | Leo Tolstoy | State Tretyakov Gallery | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Ilya_Efimovich_Repin_%281844-1930%29_-Portrait_of_Leo_Tolstoy%281887%29.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-repin-tolstoy-portrait-1887.jpg | Painted same year Tolstoy began dictating the novella; primary visual anchor for the composition period |
| VIS-02 | portrait (oil, CC0 scan) | Ilya Repin — Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887), alternate scan | Leo Tolstoy | — | open | CC0 | CC0 | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Leo_Tolstoy_by_Ilya_Yefimovich_Repin.png | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-repin-tolstoy-1887-cc0.png | CC0 scan of same 1887 Repin portrait; prefer for publication over VIS-01 if resolution adequate |
| VIS-03 | portrait (oil) | Ilya Repin — Leo Tolstoy Barefoot (1901) | Leo Tolstoy | State Russian Museum | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Ilya_Repin_-Leo_Tolstoy_Barefoot-_Google_Art_Project.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-repin-tolstoy-barefoot-1901.jpg | Post-period (1901) but canonical Repin Tolstoy image; shows Yasnaya Polyana context |
| VIS-04 | photograph | Leo Tolstoy, 1888 | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Tolstoy_Lev_Nikolaevich.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-tolstoy-photo-1888.jpg | Photograph dated 1888 — within the core composition window of the novella |
| VIS-05 | portrait (oil) | Nikolai Ge — Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (Tretyakov Gallery, 1884) | Leo Tolstoy | State Tretyakov Gallery | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Leo_Tolstoy00.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-ge-tolstoy-tretyakov-1884.jpg | Ge was close to Tolstoy throughout the Kreutzer Sonata period; 1884 sitting at Tretyakov |
| VIS-06 | portrait (oil) | Nikolai Ge — Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (undated) | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Ge_Tolstoy.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-ge-tolstoy-portrait.jpg | Undated Ge portrait; large file (2 MiB), high-res |
| VIS-07 | portrait (oil) | Nikolai Ge — Portrait of Sofia Andreyevna Tolstaya (1886) | Sofia Tolstaya | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Ge_Sophia_Tolstaya.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-ge-sofia-tolstaya-1886.jpg | Sofia Tolstaya by Ge, 1886 — one year before composition begins; directly relevant period |
| VIS-08 | portrait (oil) | Valentin Serov — Portrait of Sofia Tolstaya at Yasnaya Polyana (1892) | Sofia Tolstaya | Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/S.Tolstaya_by_V.Serov%281892%2C_Yasnaya_Polyana%29.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-sofia-tolstaya-serov-1892.jpg | Painted 1892 at Yasnaya Polyana, shortly after the novella’s first open publication (1891) |
| VIS-09 | photograph | Sofia Tolstaya, 1875 | Sofia Tolstaya | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Sofia_Tolstaya%2C_1875.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-sofia-tolstaya-photo-1875.jpg | Earliest accessible Commons photo of Sofia Tolstaya; period context |
| VIS-10 | photograph | Tolstoy family group, 1886 | Leo Tolstoy; Sofia Tolstaya | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Tolstoy_family.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-tolstoy-family-1886.jpg | Family photograph 1886 — one year before composition; 10 KB, low resolution |
| VIS-11 | portrait (oil) | Ivan Kramskoy — Portrait of Vladimir Chertkov (1881) | Vladimir Chertkov | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Chertkov_by_Kramskoy.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-chertkov-kramskoy-1881.jpg | Chertkov was Tolstoy’s closest disciple; handled clandestine circulation of the novella 1889–1891 |
| VIS-12 | portrait (oil/photo) | Leo Tolstoy portrait (1898) | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Leo_Tolstoy_-_portrait.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-tolstoy-portrait-1898.jpg | 17 MiB — oversized for most uses; 1898 (post-period) |
| VIS-13 | sheet music / facsimile | Beethoven Op. 47 (Kreutzer Sonata) — first edition frontispiece (1805) | Beethoven Op. 47; Kreutzer Sonata | — | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Beethoven_Opus_47_Kreutzer_frontispiece.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-beethoven-op47-kreutzer-frontispiece-1805.jpg | Title page of the Op. 47 first edition dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer; directly names the musical source of the novella |
| VIS-14 | sheet music / facsimile | Kreutzer Sonata — title page, later edition (c. 1813) | Beethoven Op. 47 | — | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Portada_Sonata_Kreutzer.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-kreutzer-sonata-title-page-1813.jpg | Another early edition title page, c. 1813 |
| VIS-15 | sheet music / score | Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata — score page (modern scan) | Beethoven Op. 47 | — | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Kreutzer_Sonate_Beethoven.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-beethoven-kreutzer-sonate-score.jpg | Score excerpt scan; upload date 2008, underlying work PD |
| VIS-16 | photograph (theatrical) | Stanislavski in The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891) | Konstantin Stanislavski; The Fruits of Enlightenment | unknown | open | PD | Public domain | yes | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Stanislavski_The_Fruits_of_Enlightenment_%281891%29.jpg | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/commons-stanislavski-fruits-enlightenment-1891.jpg | Tolstoy’s play premiered 1891; contextual — same creative moment as Kreutzer Sonata publication |
| VIS-17 | facsimile / book cover | tolstoy.ru — Крейцерова соната cover image (modern edition) | The Kreutzer Sonata | tolstoy.ru mirror | local only | unknown | unknown | no | https://tolstoy.ru/creativity/fiction/detail/ (cover image embedded in page) | docs/research/1887-1889-the-kreutzer-sonata/visuals/local-tolstoyru-kreutzer-sonata-cover.jpg | 220×315 px JPEG from tolstoy.ru mirror; modern edition cover, rights unknown — do not publish without clearance |
| VIS-18 | facsimile (PDF) | Leo Tolstoy — The Kreutzer Sonata, Maude translation (1924) | The Kreutzer Sonata | Wikimedia Commons / Internet Archive | open | PD | Public domain | yes (PDF) | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Leo_Tolstoy_-The_Kreutzer_Sonata%28Maude_translation%29.pdf | — | Not downloaded (text document, not image); 1924 Aylmer Maude translation; PD in most jurisdictions |
| VIS-19 | portrait | V.N. Andreyev-Burlak (actor) | V.N. Andreyev-Burlak | — | — | — | unknown | no | — | — | No image found on Wikimedia Commons under any spelling (Andreyev-Burlak, Andreev-Burlak, Андреев-Бурлак). Andreyev-Burlak was the railway traveller whose story Tolstoy heard and used as genesis material. State Tolstoy Museum may hold a photograph — request manually |
| VIS-20 | title page / facsimile | Early Russian edition, Сочинения т. 13 (1890) — first authorised printing | The Kreutzer Sonata (1890 ed.) | State Tolstoy Museum / RSL | not accessible | rights-reserved or unknown | unknown | no | https://tolstoy-iss.kamiscloud.ru / https://web.goskatalog.ru | — | tolstoy-iss.kamiscloud.ru and Goskatalog not accessible programmatically in this session; both likely hold digitised copies of the 1890 Сочинения vol. 13 title page. Request via museum enquiry form. RSL (rsl.ru) may also hold |
| VIS-21 | title page / facsimile | Foreign first editions (French: La Sonate à Kreutzer, 1890; English: Benjamin Tucker 1890) | The Kreutzer Sonata (foreign eds.) | Internet Archive / BnF Gallica | open (IA) | PD | Public domain | yes (via IA) | https://archive.org/search?query=kreutzer+sonata+tolstoy&and[]=year%3A%221890%22 | — | Not downloaded — Internet Archive has multiple 1890 foreign editions as PDFs/DjVu; IA search confirmed results but individual title-page images not extracted in this session; follow up with targeted IA item download |