When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (3.63)
- Galignani (English Journal) (4.36)
- Hegelians, nihilists (5.62)
- Schiller, Goethe, German materialist philosophers (6.20)
- Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (6.29)
- K.P. Masalsk, The Streltsy (8.24)
- Ludwig Buchner, Stoff und Kraft(German materialist philosopher) (10.11)
- Pushkin, The Gypsies (10.19)
- Biblical Elijah (10.74)
- Raphael's Girl at the Fountain (10.108)
- Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, French statesman and man of letters (12.1)
- Sophia Yurevna Svyetchin, mystical writer (12.1)
- Etienne Bonnot Condillac, French writer on logic, psychology, economic science (12.1)
- James Fenimoore Cooper's Pathfinder (13.26)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (13.48)
- Michelet, De l'amour (13.62)
- Pelous and Fremy, Notions generales de Chimie (17.27)
- Christophe Wilhelm Hufeland, German physicist (20.17)
- Johann Lukas Schonlein, German physicist (20.46)
- Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, Swiss physicist, chemist, natural philosopher (20.58)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (21.3)
- Castor and Pollux (21.125)
- Lotharios (23.79)
- Ann Ward Radcliffe (24.99)
Historical References
- Revolutions of 1848 (1.8)
- Emancipation of the Serfs (2.37, 28.9)
- Louis-Philippe, Duke of Wellington (7.11)
- 1812 Russian campaign against the French (8.23)
- Alexander I (10.45)
- Mongolia (10.104)
- Louis Bourdaloue, orator and professor (13.20)
- M. Speransky, Russian statesman given to westernizing tendencies (16.10)
- Prince Wittgenstein, Southern Army of 1814 (20.54)
- Napoleon III, the Italian Question (20.63)
- Prince Alexander Suvorov's retreat (21.46)
- Rights of the Baltic barons (23.1)
Pop Culture References
- Schubert's Expectation for cello (9.49)
- Seymour Schiff, Granada lies slumbering (13.67)
- Mozart's Sonata Fantasia in C minor (16.68)
- Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable (21.37)