Keystone
tolstoy-1897-loc
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | tolstoy-1897-loc |
| type | photograph |
| subject | Leo Tolstoy, aged 69 |
| relatedEntity | Leo Tolstoy (author) |
| holding | U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — US government/LOC item, no copyright claimed |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leo_Tolstoy_1897_LCCN2014645312.jpg |
| localPath | visuals/commons-tolstoy-1897.jpg |
| note | LOC catalog LCCN 2014645312, digital ID ppmsca.37767; dated 1897, within the What Is Art? writing window. |
Key people
maude-aylmer
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | maude-aylmer |
| type | photograph |
| subject | Aylmer Maude (1858–1938), English translator of What Is Art? |
| relatedEntity | Aylmer Maude |
| holding | Victoria and Albert Museum, Lafayette archive |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | CC BY-SA 4.0 — V&A / Lafayette photography studio, 1919 |
| licence | CC-BY-SA |
| usable | true (with attribution) |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aylmer_Maude_(1858-1938).jpg |
| localPath | — (not downloaded; CC-BY-SA 4.0 requires attribution; not PD) |
| note | Photographed 21 October 1919 by Lafayette studio. Republication requires attribution to V&A / Lafayette archive. Not downloaded to avoid git confusion with licence-restricted files; URL sufficient for reference. |
stasov-repin-1889
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | stasov-repin-1889 |
| type | portrait (oil painting, photographed) |
| subject | Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), art and music critic, ally of the realist school |
| relatedEntity | Vladimir Stasov |
| holding | unknown (painting); image sourced from art-catalog.ru via Commons |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — Ilya Repin (1844–1930), painted 1889; Repin died 1930, >70 years |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stasov_by_Repin_1889.jpg |
| localPath | visuals/commons-stasov-repin-1889.jpg |
| note | Repin’s 1889 portrait of Stasov. Stasov’s views on art (nationalist realism, opposition to “decadent” formalism) were a live debate context for Tolstoy’s treatise. |
taneyev-sergei
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | taneyev-sergei |
| type | photograph |
| subject | Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), composer; Tolstoy family friend whose presence irritated Tolstoy |
| relatedEntity | Sergei Taneyev |
| holding | unknown |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — unknown author; Commons asserts PD |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true (with caveat: no machine-readable author or source on Commons record) |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taneyev.jpg |
| localPath | visuals/commons-taneyev.jpg |
| note | Commons record lacks machine-readable author and source; the PD assertion is conventional for pre-1925 Russian photographs of deceased subjects. Verify if publishing externally. |
grot-nikolai
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | grot-nikolai |
| type | photograph |
| subject | Nikolai Grot (1852–1899), philosopher; editor of Voprosy filosofii i psikhologii; arranged publication of What Is Art? in the journal |
| relatedEntity | Nikolai Grot |
| holding | Runivers digital archive |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — Scherer, Nabgoltz & Co. studio, late 19th century; studio and subject both long deceased |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nikolay_Grot.jpg |
| localPath | visuals/commons-grot.jpg |
| note | Dated “конец 19 века” (end of 19th century) by Runivers. Grot died 1899; he edited the censored journal version of What Is Art? and was a key interlocutor for Tolstoy. |
chertkov-vladimir
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | chertkov-vladimir |
| type | photograph |
| subject | Vladimir Chertkov (1854–1936), Tolstoy’s closest disciple; coordinated foreign publication of the uncensored text |
| relatedEntity | Vladimir Chertkov |
| holding | tolstoy.ru photo archive |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — A.F. Eichenvald, photographed 1883; photographer and subject both deceased >70 years |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Chertkov.jpg |
| localPath | visuals/commons-chertkov.jpg |
| note | Dated 1883, so pre-dates the What Is Art? period by ~15 years. No closer portrait found on Commons in a light sweep; acceptable for identification purposes. |
Manuscript / first edition
what-is-art-first-edition
| field | value |
|---|---|
| id | what-is-art-first-edition |
| type | facsimile (early edition text, not MS) |
| subject | What Is Art? — 1899 English edition (Maude translation, Walter Scott, London) |
| relatedEntity | What Is Art? |
| holding | Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons |
| source | Wikimedia Commons |
| access | open |
| rights | PD — 1899 publication |
| licence | PD |
| usable | true (text facsimile, not a title-page image) |
| url | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What_is_art_-_1899.djvu |
| localPath | — (djvu not downloaded; binary too large for visuals sweep; URL sufficient) |
| note | This is the 1899 Maude English translation (Walter Scott, London), not the Russian first edition. The Russian первое издание (Posrednik / Свободное слово, 1898, Chertkov’s Free Word Press) has not been located as a PD image on Commons in this sweep. The Russian title page is a gap — needsReview. |
Gaps / needsReview
| gap | notes |
|---|---|
| Tolstoy portrait 1897–1898 (Repin painting) | Repin painted Tolstoy multiple times; a c.1896–1901 canvas is likely PD but not surfaced in this sweep with sufficient date precision. The LOC photograph (commons-tolstoy-1897.jpg) serves as keystone. |
| Russian first edition title page (1898) | Чертков / Free Word Press, Purleigh/Christchurch, 1898. No Commons item found. Likely survives in RGALI or Lenin Library; not digitised publicly. Mark needsReview for future wiki-ingestion sourcing. |
| Maude portrait (PD) | Only PD-candidate found is CC-BY-SA 4.0 (V&A / Lafayette, 1919). No pre-1927 PD photograph of Maude located in this sweep. |