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1905-the-great-sin

Entity steer — The Great Sin (1905)

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Which people and ideas this dive fed into the shared entity layer (docs/research/wiki/), and the one-line gist of what each got. The substance lives on the entity pages themselves; this is only the “who contributed what” trail. Routing source: this dive’s dossier.yaml → entities:.

People — new pages written

Entity Page What this dive fed
Henry George wiki/Henry George.md (2026-07-27) The essay’s intellectual centre; read «по Николаеву»; the conditional Chapter IX endorsement; reception-by-silence; George’s own faith language (from reader annotation A2).
Isabella Fyvie Mayo wiki/Isabella Fyvie Mayo.md (2026-07-27) Chertkov’s named co-translator of the 1905 English A Great Iniquity; the title-softening question; the possible “I. F. M.” of the 1904 Bethink Yourselves (from reader annotation A1).
Sergei Nikolaev wiki/Sergei Nikolaev.md (2026-08-12) George’s principal Russian translator; the 1904 Posrednik edition that is the source of the essay’s George quotations and of the George biography Tolstoy drew on; the 1906 prefaces.
Dushan Makovitsky wiki/Dushan Makovitsky.md (2026-08-12) Resident doctor and diarist; his Yasnaya Polyana Notes date the composition (28 Apr, 1 Jul, 11 Jul 1905); the commentary identifies him as the Chapter VII newspaper-reader at Tula station.
Giuseppe Mazzini wiki/Giuseppe Mazzini.md (2026-08-12) The Chapter VIII epigraph framing social change as the consequence of religious movements; read via Nikiforov’s 1905 Posrednik anthology.
Alexander Buturlin wiki/Alexander Buturlin.md (2026-08-12) Companion on the 20 April 1905 visit to the peasant Osipov, whose reproach for buying land is the essay’s personal seam («мы, русские паразиты»).

People — already live (feed the existing page, don’t duplicate)

enriches-live pages carry only the new material and merge into the live page at ingestion.

Entity Enrich page What this dive adds
Vladimir Chertkov wiki/Vladimir Chertkov.md — enriches-live (2026-08-12) Proposed the 1905 cuts (two chapters + parts of others); set apart the one paragraph he judged to stand against the essay, printed after the first introduction, which appeared as «Необходимый переворот» in «Свободное слово» No. 17–18 (his 8 July 1905 reason; corrected 2026-10-02 from the PSS commentary); softened «происходят от»→«связаны с»; published via «Свободное слово» No. 98; co-translated A Great Iniquity.
Maria Tolstaya wiki/Maria Tolstaya.md — enriches-live (2026-08-12) Copied the final text for Русская мысль (per Makovitsky, 1 Jul 1905) — the lost copy behind the journal text’s divergences. Disambiguation resolved 2026-07-27: the existing page is the daughter Maria Lvovna (m. Obolenskaya).

Concepts

Entity Page / disposition What this dive fed
Private property in land wiki/Private property in land.md — new (2026-08-12) The essay’s actual moral-religious subject («великий грех» — the surviving form of slavery), the religious-not-economic framing, and the inner-vs-outward tension behind the Chertkov cut.
Single tax Folded into Henry George; standalone node deferred to P9 George’s fiscal remedy, endorsed only conditionally «при существующем государственном строе». Kept off a standalone economics-labelled node (the “value-word” risk); the mechanism is set out on the Henry George page, and the cross-dive land-question concepts belong to the P9 land-question dive.

Not a wiki page