Visual Materials — «Христианское учение» (The Christian Teaching)

Work: The Christian Teaching (Христианское учение), written 1894–96; first published by V. G. Chertkov abroad, 1898. Intensity: light (abstract treatise — keystone images + a few per major entity). Channels consulted: local primary-sources/ (tolstoydigital-TEI timeline images, jubilee-edition); Wikimedia Commons API (generator=search + titles, prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|extmetadata|size); Internet Archive item christianteachin01tols (the source of the Commons first-edition PDF). Date of sweep: 2026-06-13

Summary: 9 PD images downloaded into visuals/ (git-ignored). 1 keystone photo of Tolstoy in the exact composition year (1896), 2 Repin works, 2 Chertkov portraits, the daughter/copyist Tatyana, and the 1898 first-edition title page + copyright page + LoC deposit-stamp page. The manuscript facsimile (2154 leaves, GTM/RGB) is documented-only, not downloadable. Evgeny Popov: no PD image found — skipped per brief.

Items

Local primary-sources check

Searched primary-sources/ (6,891 image files). Relevant hits, all from primary-sources/tolstoydigital-TEI/images/timeline_* (sourced from tolstoy.ru / GTM, rights uncertain — not used, documented only):

No local image carries a clear open licence, so all keystones were taken from Wikimedia Commons (clean PD provenance) instead.

Provenance & licence block (YAML-ish)

visuals:
  - id: V01
    type: photograph
    subject: "Leo Tolstoy, bust portrait, 1896"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    role: keystone-author
    holding: "State Tolstoy Museum (GTM) → Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "Шерер, Набгольц и Ко (Scherer, Nabholz & Co.)"
    date: 1896
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Лев_Толстой_(Шерер_и_Набгольц,_1896).jpg"
    licence: PD          # PD-old; LicenseShortName=Public domain
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-tolstoy-scherer-nabgolts-1896.jpg"
    note: "Dated 1896 — exact composition year. GTM catalogue 0003600084."
  - id: V02
    type: portrait
    subject: "Leo Tolstoy, oil portrait, 1887"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    holding: "Tretyakov Gallery → Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "Ilya Repin"
    date: 1887
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilya_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Portrait_of_Leo_Tolstoy_(1887).jpg"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-repin-tolstoy-1887.jpg"
  - id: V03
    type: portrait
    subject: "Tolstoy Ploughing, 1887"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    holding: "Tretyakov Gallery → Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "Ilya Repin"
    date: 1887
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tolstoy_ploughing.jpg"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-repin-tolstoy-ploughing-1887.jpg"
    note: "Optional / atmosphere — manual-labour ideal."
  - id: V04
    type: portrait
    subject: "Vladimir G. Chertkov, 1890s"
    relatedEntity: Chertkov
    role: keystone-genesis
    holding: "Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "Ilya Repin"
    date: "1890s"
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Repin_Vladimir_Chertkov.jpg"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-chertkov-repin-1890s.jpg"
    note: "Contemporaneous with his editor/publisher role. Native 564x763."
  - id: V05
    type: photograph
    subject: "Vladimir G. Chertkov, 1883"
    relatedEntity: Chertkov
    holding: "tolstoy.ru → Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "А. Ф. Эйхенвальд"
    date: 1883
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Chertkov.jpg"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-chertkov-photo-1883.jpg"
    note: "Alternate photographic Chertkov. Small (322x479)."
  - id: V06
    type: title-page
    subject: "The Christian Teaching — 1898 first edition title page"
    relatedEntity: [Tolstoy, Chertkov]
    role: keystone-first-edition
    holding: "Library of Congress → Internet Archive christianteachin01tols → Commons PDF"
    publisher: "Frederick A. Stokes Company (Knickerbocker Press), New York, 1898"
    date: 1898
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Christian_teaching_(IA_christianteachin01tols).pdf"
    iaItem: "https://archive.org/details/christianteachin01tols"
    licence: PD          # PD-US, published 1898
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-christian-teaching-1898-titlepage.jpg"
    note: "Chertkov named on title page as translator. IA leaf 9. US co-edition, same year as London Brotherhood edition."
  - id: V07
    type: title-page
    subject: "1898 first edition — copyright page"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    holding: "LoC → IA christianteachin01tols"
    date: 1898
    url: "https://archive.org/details/christianteachin01tols"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-christian-teaching-1898-copyright.jpg"
    note: "Copyright 1898 + LoC AUG 19 1898 stamp. Provenance companion to V06."
  - id: V08
    type: title-page
    subject: "1898 first edition — LoC deposit-stamp page"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    holding: "LoC → IA christianteachin01tols"
    date: 1898
    url: "https://archive.org/details/christianteachin01tols"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-christian-teaching-1898-loc-stamp.jpg"
    note: "Half-title verso, OCT 7 1898 LoC stamp. Optional."
  - id: V09
    type: photograph
    subject: "Tatyana L. Tolstaya, aged 19 (~1883)"
    relatedEntity: Tatyana Tolstaya
    holding: "Wikimedia Commons"
    creator: "unknown (pre-1910)"
    date: "~1883"
    url: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tatyana_Sukhotina-Tolstaya_19_years.jpg"
    licence: PD
    usable: true
    downloaded: true
    localPath: "visuals/commons-tatyana-tolstaya-19yo.jpg"
    note: "Daughter/copyist. Earliest PD young portrait; secondary."
  - id: V10
    type: manuscript
    subject: "Manuscript of «Христианское учение» — 2154 leaves"
    relatedEntity: Tolstoy
    holding: "GTM (State Tolstoy Museum) / RGB manuscript dept."
    url: "https://tolstoymuseum.ru/  (request) ; https://www.culture.ru/  (GTM catalogue)"
    licence: unknown
    usable: false
    downloaded: false
    localPath: null
    note: "NOT DOWNLOADED. No facsimile on Commons or IA (searched). Request from GTM/RGB; rights not open. needsReview / GAP. PSS Tom 39 (local v39_117_191_*.txt) is the text substitute."
notFound:
  - "Evgeny I. Popov — no PD image on Wikimedia Commons (search returned nothing). Skipped per brief."

Notes

• Keystones: V01 (Tolstoy 1896 photo — exact composition year), V04 (Chertkov, 1890s Repin — the genesis figure), V06 (1898 first-edition title page naming Chertkov as translator). These three alone carry the dive.
• First edition — actually found (better than expected). The brief warned this would be hard; in fact the full 1898 first edition is on Commons/IA as a PD scan (christianteachin01tols), so the real title page (V06), copyright page (V07) and LoC deposit stamp (V08) were all extractable. This is the US Stokes co-edition (New York, 1898) — published the same year as the London Brotherhood Publishing Co. edition; both name Chertkov. A separate Russian «Христианское учение» (Purleigh, 1898) title page was not located in open repositories — record as needsReview if the Russian title page is specifically wanted.
• Manuscript (V10): confirmed not freely available. Documented provenance + request path only; usable:false, needsReview. Do not download.
• Popov: no PD image; skipped (brief said skip if no obvious PD hit).
• Local images: the tolstoydigital-TEI timeline assets that match (Chertkov, his 1897 expulsion to England, Tolstoy+Chertkov) are rights-uncertain (tolstoy.ru/GTM web assets) — documented but not used in favour of clean-PD Commons files.
• Downloads: 9 files in visuals/ (git-ignored, safe for local embedding). All PD. Photos fetched via Special:FilePath?width=1200; first-edition pages via IA christianteachin01tols page service at full leaf resolution (1345×2203). ```