All the figures

586 people who stood somewhere on the arc — each named the idol of an age, lived its collapse, or found the way back. Grouped by the voice they spoke in.

Philosophers 95

Aleksei LosevXX century
Aleksey KhomyakovXIX century
AnaxagorasVI century BC
AnaximanderVII century BC
AnaximenesVI century BC
Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusV century
AristotleIV century BC
Arthur SchopenhauerXVIII century
Auguste ComteXVIII century
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)X century
Baruch SpinozaXVII century
Blaise PascalXVII century
Charles DarwinXIX century
Christian WolffXVII century
Claude Henri de Saint-SimonXVIII century
Claude Lévi-StraussXX century
David HumeXVIII century
DemocritusV century BC
Denis DiderotXVIII century
Diogenes of SinopeV century BC
Edmund HusserlXX century
Emmanuel MounierXX century
EmpedoclesV century BC
EpictetusI century BC
EpicurusIV century BC
Erasmus of RotterdamXV century
Erich FrommXX century
Francis BaconXVI century
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)XVII century
Friedrich EngelsXIX century
Friedrich NietzscheXIX century
Friedrich SchleiermacherXVIII century
Friedrich Wilhelm SchellingXVIII century
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelXVIII century
Georgy FedotovXIX century
Giovanni Pico della MirandolaXV century
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizXVII century
Heraclitus of EphesusVI century BC
Herbert SpencerXIX century
Immanuel KantXVIII century
Ivan IlyinXX century
Ivan KireyevskyXIX century
Jacques DerridaXX century
Jean-Jacques RousseauXVIII century
Jean-Paul SartreXX century
Johann Gottlieb FichteXVIII century
John DeweyXX century
John LockeXVII century
John of SalisburyXII century
John Stuart MillXIX century
Karl JaspersXX century
Karl MarxXIX century
Konstantin LeontievXIX century
Lev KarsavinXX century
Lev ShestovXX century
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI century BC
Ludwig Andreas FeuerbachXIX century
MaimonidesXII century
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusII century
Marcus Tullius CiceroII century
Marsilio FicinoXV century
Martin BuberXX century
Martin HeideggerXX century
Maximilian Carl Emil WeberXIX century
Michel de MontaigneXVI century
Michel FoucaultXX century
Mircea EliadeXX century
Niccolò MachiavelliXV century
Nicholas of CusaXV century
Nikolai BerdyaevXIX century
Nikolai FyodorovXIX century
Nikolai LosskyXX century
ParmenidesVI century BC
Paul RicœurXX century
Peter AbelardXI century
PlatoV century BC
PlotinusIII century
PythagorasVI century BC
René DescartesXVI century
Roland BarthesXX century
Semyon FrankXX century
Sergei AverintsevXX century
Sigmund FreudXIX century
SocratesV century BC
Søren KierkegaardXIX century
Thales of MiletusVII century BC
Theodor AdornoXX century
Thomas HobbesXVI century
Thomas MoreXV century
Viktor FranklXX century
Vladimir BibikhinXX century
Vladimir SolovyovXIX century
William of OckhamXIII century
Yevgeny TrubetskoyXX century
Zeno of CitiumIV century BC

Theologians 101

Abraham
Akhenaten
Al-GhazaliXI century
Albertus MagnusXIII century
Alexander MenXX century
Alexander SchmemannXX century
Alexei MechevXX century
Ambrose of OptinaXIX century
Amos
Andrei RublevXIV century
Andrew the ApostleI century
Anselm of CanterburyXI century
Anthony of SourozhXX century
Archpriest AvvakumXVII century
AriusIII century
Athanasius of AlexandriaIII century
Augustine of HippoIV century
Bartholomew the ApostleI century
Basil the GreatIV century
Benedict of NursiaV century
CharlemagneVIII century
Constantine the GreatIII century
Cyprian of CarthageIII century
DiocletianIII century
EcclesiastesIII century BC
EutychesIV century
Fra AngelicoXV century
Francis of AssisiXII century
Gennady FastXXI century
Gregory of NyssaIV century
Gregory PalamasXIII century
Gregory the Theologian (Gregory of Nazianzus)IV century
Hermogenes, Patriarch of MoscowXVI century
Ibn ArabiXII century
Ignatius of AntiochI century
Ignatius of LoyolaXV century
Ilya FondaminskyXX century
James (son of Zebedee)I century
James, son of AlphaeusI century
Jan HusXIV century
Janusz KorczakXIX century
JeremiahVII century BC
Jesus ChristI century BC
John CalvinXVI century
John ChrysostomIV century
John Duns ScotusXIV century
John of DamascusVII century
John of KronstadtXIX century
John the Theologian (John the Evangelist, son of Zebedee)I century
Justinian IV century
Leonid of OptinaXVIII century
Luke the EvangelistI century
Macarius of OptinaXVIII century
ManiIII century
Marcion of SinopeI century
Martin LutherXV century
Matthew the EvangelistI century
Maximus the ConfessorVI century
Meister EckhartXIII century
Mother Maria (Skobtsova)XX century
Nectarius of OptinaXIX century
NestoriusIV century
New Martyrs of RussiaXX century
Pachomius the GreatIV century
Paisius VelichkovskyXVIII century
Pavel AdelgeimXX century
Pavel FlorenskyXX century
PelagiusIV century
PhilipI century
Philotheus of PskovXV century
Pope Leo I the GreatV century
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteVI century
Pyotr BaranovskyXX century
Saint Anatoly of Optina (Potapov)XIX century
Saint Ignatius BrianchaninovXIX century
Saint Innocent of IrkutskXVII century
Saul-PaulI century
Seraphim of SarovXVIII century
Sergei BulgakovXX century
Sergei FudelXX century
Sergei MechevXX century
Sergius of RadonezhXIV century
Siddhartha GautamaVI century BC
Simon PeterI century
Simon the ZealotI century
Simon UshakovXVII century
Symeon the New TheologianX century
Teresa of ÁvilaXVI century
The ApostlesI century
Theodore Kolychev (Saint Philip of Moscow)XVI century
Theodoret of CyrusV century
Theodosius I the GreatIV century
Theophan the RecluseXIX century
Thomas AquinasXIII century
Thomas the Twin (Doubting Thomas)I century
Tikhon of ZadonskXVIII century
Valentinus (the Gnostic)II century
Vasily Drozdov (Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow)XVIII century
Vladimir LosskyXX century
Zarathustra
ZhuangziIV century BC

Painters 112

Agnolo BronzinoXVI century
Albrecht DürerXV century
Alexander IvanovXIX century
Andy WarholXX century
Anselm FeuerbachXIX century
ApellesIV century BC
Aristarkh LentulovXX century
Arnold BöcklinXIX century
Artemisia GentileschiXVI century
BanksyXXI century
Camille ClaudelXIX century
Christy BrownXX century
Claude MonetXIX century
David BombergXX century
David BurliukXX century
Diego VelázquezXVI century
Dmitriy MochalskyXX century
Donato BramanteXV century
Edvard MunchXX century
Egon SchieleXX century
El GrecoXVI century
Emil NoldeXX century
Eugène DelacroixXVIII century
Francisco GoyaXVIII century
Franz von StuckXX century
Frescoes of Santorini (Akrotiri)
Frescoes of Tell el-Amarna
Frescoes of the Palace of Knossos
Frida KahloXX century
Friedensreich HundertwasserXX century
Fyodor RokotovXVIII century
Georges BraqueXX century
Georges-Pierre SeuratXIX century
Gian Lorenzo BerniniXVI century
GiorgioneXV century
Giotto di BondoneXIII century
Grigoriy MyasoyedovXIX century
Gustav KlimtXX century
Gustave MoreauXIX century
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecXX century
Henri MatisseXX century
Henri RousseauXIX century
Hieronymus BoschXV century
Ilya RepinXIX century
Isaac LevitanXIX century
Ivan AivazovskyXIX century
Ivan KramskoiXIX century
Ivan ShishkinXIX century
Jackson PollockXX century
Jacopo PontormoXV century
Jacques-Louis DavidXVIII century
Jan van EyckXIV century
Jan van ScorelXV century
Jean-Michel BasquiatXX century
John ConstableXVIII century
John Everett MillaisXIX century
Joseph KosuthXX century
Joseph Mallord William TurnerXVIII century
Katsushika HokusaiXVIII century
Kazimir MalevichXX century
Lawrence Alma-TademaXX century
Leonardo da VinciXV century
Lucas Cranach the ElderXV century
Marc ChagallXX century
Marcel DuchampXX century
Marina AbramovićXXI century
Mark RothkoXX century
Max ErnstXX century
Michelangelo BuonarrotiXV century
Michelangelo Merisi da CaravaggioXVI century
Mikhail LarionovXX century
Mikhail VrubelXIX century
Natalia GoncharovaXX century
Nicholas RoerichXX century
Nicolas PoussinXVI century
Nikolai GeXIX century
Pablo PicassoXX century
Paul CézanneXIX century
Paul GauguinXIX century
Paul KleeXX century
Peter Paul RubensXVI century
PhidiasV century BC
Pieter Bruegel the ElderXVI century
Pietro CavalliniXIII century
PolykleitosV century BC
PraxitelesIV century BC
RaphaelXV century
Red-figure vase paintingVI century BC
Reliefs of the Palace of AshurbanipalVII century BC
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnXVII century
René MagritteXX century
Robert CampinXIV century
Salvador DalíXX century
Sandro BotticelliXV century
Standard of Ur
The Ishtar GateVI century BC
Theophanes the GreekXIV century
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)XV century
Umberto BoccioniXX century
Vasily PolenovXIX century
Vasily PukirevXIX century
Vasily SurikovXIX century
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Viktor VasnetsovXIX century
Vincent van GoghXIX century
Vladimir TatlinXX century
Wassily KandinskyXX century
William Holman HuntXIX century
WolsXX century
Yervand KocharXX century
Zinaida SerebriakovaXX century
Édouard ManetXIX century

Writers 239

Adam MickiewiczXIX century
AeschylusVI century BC
AesopVII century BC
Agrippa d'AubignéXVI century
Albert CamusXX century
Aldous Huxley
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynXX century
Alexander BelyaevXX century
Alexander BlokXX century
Alexander GriboyedovXIX century
Alexander HerzenXIX century
Alexander KuprinXIX century
Alexander OdoevskyXIX century
Alexander OstrovskyXIX century
Alexander PushkinXIX century
Alexander RadishchevXVIII century
Alexander TvardovskyXX century
Alexandre DumasXIX century
Anatoly RybakovXX century
Andrei Platonov
Anna AkhmatovaXX century
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryXX century
Anton ChekhovXIX century
ApuleiusII century
AristophanesV century BC
Arkady AverchenkoXX century
Arseny TarkovskyXX century
Arthur RimbaudXIX century
BabriusII century
Bertolt BrechtXX century
Bolesław PrusXIX century
Boris PasternakXX century
C. S. LewisXX century
Charles BaudelaireXIX century
Charles De CosterXIX century
Charles DickensXIX century
Charles-Louis de MontesquieuXVII century
Charlotte BrontëXIX century
Christopher MarloweXVI century
Chrétien de TroyesXII century
Daniil AndreyevXX century
Daniil KharmsXX century
Dante AlighieriXIII century
Denis FonvizinXVIII century
E. T. A. HoffmannXVIII century
Edgar Allan PoeXIX century
Edmund SpenserXVI century
Elena ShvartsXXI century
Epic of Gilgamesh
Erich Maria RemarqueXX century
Ernest HemingwayXX century
Eugene VodolazkinXXI century
EuripidesV century BC
F. Scott FitzgeraldXX century
Flann O'BrienXX century
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)XIV century
Franz KafkaXX century
François RabelaisXV century
François VillonXV century
Friedrich SchillerXVIII century
Fyodor DostoevskyXIX century
Fyodor TyutchevXIX century
Gabriel García MárquezXXI century
Gavrila Derzhavin
Geoffrey ChaucerXIV century
George Bernard ShawXX century
George Gordon ByronXIX century
George OrwellXX century
Georgy IvanovXX century
Gil VicenteXV century
Giovanni BoccaccioXIV century
Gustave FlaubertXIX century
Guy de MaupassantXIX century
H. G. WellsXIX century
Hans Christian AndersenXIX century
Hans SachsXV century
Haruki Murakami
Heinrich HeineXIX century
Henry FieldingXVIII century
Henry JamesXIX century
Herman MelvilleXIX century
Hermann Hesse
HesiodVIII century BC
Homer
Honoré de BalzacXIX century
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)I century BC
Horace WalpoleXVIII century
Igor SeveryaninXX century
Ilf and PetrovXX century
Ilya EhrenburgXX century
Ilya SelvinskyXX century
Innokenty AnnenskyXIX century
Isaac AsimovXX century
Isaac BabelXX century
Isaac Bashevis SingerXX century
Ivan BuninXX century
Ivan GoncharovXIX century
Ivan KrylovXIX century
Ivan ShmelyovXIX century
Ivan TurgenevXIX century
J. D. SalingerXX century
Jacopo SannazaroXV century
James JoyceXX century
Jaroslav HašekXX century
Jean de La FontaineXVII century
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheXVIII century
John FowlesXX century
John GalsworthyXIX century
John KeatsXIX century
John SteinbeckXX century
Jonathan SwiftXVII century
Jorge Luis BorgesXX century
Joseph BrodskyXX century
Julio Cortázar
Karel ČapekXX century
Konstantin BalmontXX century
Konstantin BatyushkovXIX century
Lazarillo de Tormes
Legend of King Arthur
Leo TolstoyXIX century
Leonid AndreyevXX century
LongusIII century
Lope de VegaXVI century
Luís de CamõesXVI century
Marcel ProustXX century
Marguerite de NavarreXV century
Maria PetrovykhXX century
Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)XIX century
Marina TsvetaevaXX century
Mark AldanovXIX century
Mark TwainXIX century
Mary ShelleyXIX century
Masuccio SalernitanoXV century
Mateo AlemánXVI century
Maurice MaeterlinckXX century
Maxim GorkyXX century
Maximilian VoloshinXX century
Michel HouellebecqXX century
Miguel de CervantesXVI century
Mikhail Afanasyevich BulgakovXX century
Mikhail LermontovXIX century
Mikhail LomonosovXVIII century
Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinXIX century
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail ZoshchenkoXX century
Milan Kundera
MolièreXVII century
Nikolai Aseyev
Nikolai GogolXIX century
Nikolai GumilyovXX century
Nikolai KlyuevXX century
Nikolai LeskovXIX century
Nikolai Mikhailovich KaramzinXVIII century
Nikolai NekrasovXIX century
Nikolai ZabolotskyXX century
O. HenryXIX century
Omar KhayyamXI century
Oscar WildeXIX century
Osip MandelstamXX century
OvidI century BC
Paul VerlaineXIX century
Pedro Calderón de la BarcaXVII century
PhaedrusI century BC
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosXVIII century
Pierre CorneilleXVII century
Pierre de RonsardXVI century
Pierre-Augustin Caron de BeaumarchaisXVIII century
Pietro AretinoXV century
PlutarchI century
Poggio BraccioliniXIV century
Prosper MériméeXIX century
Pyotr VyazemskyXIX century
Ray BradburyXX century
Robert Louis StevensonXIX century
Romain RollandXX century
Rudyard KiplingXIX century
SapphoVII century BC
Sasha ChornyXX century
Sebastian BrantXV century
Sergei DovlatovXX century
Sergei YeseninXX century
Sergey GorodetskyXX century
Sholem AleichemXIX century
Snorri SturlusonXII century
SophoclesV century BC
Stanisław LemXX century
Stefan ZweigXX century
T. S. EliotXX century
The Ballads of Robin Hood
The Poem of the Cid
The Romance of Tristan
The Strugatsky BrothersXX century
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas KydXVI century
Thomas MannXX century
Thomas NasheXVI century
Tirso de MolinaXVI century
Tommaso CampanellaXVI century
Torquato TassoXVI century
Umberto EcoXX century
Valentin Rasputin
Valery BryusovXX century
Varlam ShalamovXX century
Vasil Bykaŭ
Vasily Grossman
Vasily Shukshin
Vasily ZhukovskyXIX century
Velimir KhlebnikovXX century
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Victor HugoXIX century
Victor PelevinXXI century
VirgilI century BC
Virginia WoolfXX century
Vladimir MayakovskyXX century
Vladimir NabokovXX century
Vladimir NarbutXX century
Vladimir OdoevskyXIX century
Vladimir TendryakovXX century
Vladimir VysotskyXX century
Vladislav KhodasevichXX century
Vyacheslav IvanovXX century
Walt WhitmanXIX century
Walter ScottXVIII century
Wilhelm KüchelbeckerXIX century
William BlakeXIX century
William FaulknerXX century
William LanglandXIV century
William Makepeace ThackerayXIX century
William ShakespeareXVI century
William Somerset MaughamXX century
Wolfram von EschenbachXII century
XenophonV century BC
Yevgeny BaratynskyXIX century
Yevgeny ChirikovXIX century
Yevgeny SchwartzXX century
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yuri TynyanovXX century
Émile ZolaXIX century

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Painters 112

Composers 39

Writers 239