Glossary of names
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- Abel
- Abelone
- Abishag the Shunammite (Abishag)
- Absalom
- Achilles
- Adam
- Adam Oehlenschläger (Oehlenschläger)
- Admetus
- Admiral Juel
- Ahasuerus (the king)
- Akulina
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (Carrier-Belleuse)
- Albrecht Dürer (Dürer)
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (Wallenstein)
- Alcaeus of Mytilene (Alcaeus)
- Alcestis
- Alexander Pushkin (Pushkin)
- Alexandre Falguière (Falguière)
- Alfred Stieglitz (Stieglitz)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (Lamartine)
- Alyosha
- Amalie von Gallitzin (Amalie Galitzin)
- Anactoria
- Angelino
- Angelo
- Anna
- Anna Sophie Reventlow (Anna Sophie)
- Antinous
- Antoine van Rasbourg (van Rasbourg)
- Antoine-Louis Barye (Barye)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (Schopenhauer)
- Atthis
- Auguste Rodin (Rodin)
- Augustus II the Strong (Augustus the Strong)
- Balthasar
- Baron Nolde
- Baron von Pirovano (Pirovano)
- Beatrice Altichieri (Beatrice)
- Benedicte von Qualen
- Beneš Knüpfer (Knüpfer)
- Bettina von Arnim (Bettine)
- Bohusch (King Bohusch)
- Bohusch's mother (his mother)
- Building-Councillor Lehr (Lehr)
- Bulba
- Byblis
- Cain
- Carla
- Catharina Minelli
- Caunus
- Charles Baudelaire (Baudelaire)
- Charles Despiau (Despiau)
- Charles the Bold
- Charles VI of France (Charles VI)
- Charles XII of Sweden (Charles XII)
- Charlotte Aïssé (Aïssé)
- Charlotte Meering (Frau Meering)
- Christian IV of Denmark (Christian IV)
- Christine Brahe
- Christine de Pizan
- Christoph Detlev Brigge (the Chamberlain)
- Christoph Rilke (the Cornet)
- Clara d'Anduze
- Clara Westhoff
- Claude Lorrain (Claude)
- Claude Monet (Monet)
- Claus Daa
- Claus Sluter (Sluter)
- Clémence de Bourges
- Clovis I (Clovis)
- Colonel Meering von Meerhelm (the Colonel)
- Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die)
- Conrad Reventlow
- Corfitz Ulfeldt (the Ulfeldts)
- Count Brahe
- Count Christian Brahe (Christian Brahe)
- Count Erik Brahe (executed) (Erik Brahe)
- Count of Campobasso (Campobasso)
- Count Saint-Quentin (Saint-Quentin)
- Count Schulin
- Count Spork (Spork)
- Countess Öllegaard Skeel (Öllegaard Skeel)
- Countess Schulin (the Countess)
- Countess Sophie Oxe (Sophie Oxe)
- Creon
- Cumaean Sibyl (the Cumaean Sibyl)
- Dalibor of Kozojedy (Dalibor)
- Daniel
- Dante Alighieri (Dante)
- Daphne
- David
- Dieudonné de Gozon (Deodat de Gozon)
- Dika
- Doctor Georg Lassmann (Georg)
- Doge Alvise Mocenigo (Mocenigo)
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Sarmiento)
- Don Juan
- Don Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)
- Donatello
- Dr. Jespersen
- Duke of Cleves
- Duke of Sagan (the Duke of Sagan)
- Duke Ulrich
- Dvorak
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (the Goncourts)
- Édouard Manet (Manet)
- Edward III of England (Edward III)
- Edward Steichen (Steichen)
- Egon von Rilke
- Eleonora Duse (Duse)
- Eleonora Duse
- Elijah
- Élisa Mercoeur
- Elizabeth
- Ellen Marsvin
- Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedenborg)
- Emperor Matthias (Matthias)
- Emperor Rudolf II (Rudolf II)
- Eranna
- Erik Brahe (Erik)
- Ernest Renan (Renan)
- Ernst Bang (Bang)
- Ernst Land (Land)
- Esau
- Esther
- Étienne Clémentel (Clémentel)
- Eugène Carrière (Carrière)
- Eugène Scribe (Scribe)
- Eurydice
- Eve
- Ewald
- Félix Arvers (Arvers)
- Felix Lichnowski
- Fra Angelico of Fiesole (Fra Angelico)
- Francesca da Rimini (Francesca)
- Francesco Sforza (Sforza)
- Francis of Assisi (Saint Francis)
- Francisco Montes (Montez)
- François Rude (Rude)
- Frantischka
- Frau Hüpfer
- Frau Malcorn
- Frédéric Chopin (Chopin)
- Frederik IV of Denmark (Frederik IV)
- Friedrich Schiller (Schiller)
- Gabriele D'Annunzio (D'Annunzio)
- Gaetano Strozzi
- Galen of Pergamon (Galen)
- Gaspara Stampa
- Gaston III, Count of Foix (Gaston Phoebus)
- Georg
- Georg Marquis
- Georges Clemenceau (Clemenceau)
- Georges Rodenbach (Rodenbach)
- Gerrit Dou (Dou)
- Giambattista Tiepolo (Tiepolo)
- Gian-Battista Colonna
- Giorgione
- Girolamo Savonarola (Savonarola)
- Golokopytenko
- Gretel
- Grigory Otrepyov (Grisha Otrepyov)
- Gustav Mahler (Mahler)
- Gustave Flaubert (Flaubert)
- Gustave Geffroy (Geffroy)
- Guy de Maupassant (Maupassant)
- Gyrinno
- Hans
- Hans Christian Andersen (Andersen)
- Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve (Hans Ulrik)
- Harald Malcorn (Harald)
- Heinrich Matthias von Thurn (Thurn)
- Helena Pawlowna
- Helene
- Heloise
- Henri Rochefort (Rochefort)
- Henrik Holck
- Heracles
- Hermann Holzer (Holzer)
- Hermann von Gilm (Gilm)
- Herr Baum
- Hertha Koenig
- Hilleborg Krafse
- Homer
- Honoré de Balzac (Balzac)
- Horace
- Ignacio Zuloaga (Zuloaga)
- Ilya of Murom (Ilya)
- Ingeborg
- Isaac Rosso
- Ivan Mazepa (Mazeppa)
- Ivan the Terrible
- Jacopo Tintoretto (Tintoretto)
- Jacques Callot (Callot)
- James McNeill Whistler (Whistler)
- Jan Frans Loos (Loos)
- Jan Hus (Hus)
- Jan van Leiden (the King of Münster)
- Jaroslav Borita von Martinitz (Martinitz)
- Jaroslav Vrchlický (Vrchlický)
- Jean Charlier de Gerson (Jean Gerson)
- Jean de Tournes
- Jean de Vienne
- Jean Froissart (Froissart)
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (Carpeaux)
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Fragonard)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Rousseau)
- Jean-Paul Laurens (Laurens)
- Jens Baggesen (Baggesen)
- Jerabek
- Jeremiah
- Jesus
- Joab
- Joachim
- Joachim Patinir (Patinir)
- Joachim Wanka
- Johann Elias Ridinger
- Johann Kaspar Lavater (Lavater)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethe)
- John of Patmos (John on Patmos)
- John Singer Sargent (Sargent)
- John the Fearless
- John, Duke of Berry (Duke of Berry)
- Jonathan
- Josef Kainz (Kainz)
- Josef Kajetán Tyl (Tyl)
- Joseph
- Joseph of Arimathea
- Josephine Wanka (Frau Wanka)
- Joshua
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Rabbi Löw)
- Judas Iscariot (Judas)
- Judith Cladel (Cladel)
- Jules Bastien-Lepage (Bastien-Lepage)
- Jules Dalou (Dalou)
- Julie de Lespinasse
- Julie Reventlow
- Julius Zeyer (Zeyer)
- Juvénal des Ursins
- Karás
- Kasimir
- Katsushika Hokusai (Hokusai)
- Kazimierz Pochwalski (Pochwalski)
- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (Tetmajer)
- Kirdyaga
- Kirstine Munk
- Klara Söllner (Klara)
- Kukubenko
- L'Inconnue de la Seine (the drowned girl)
- Leda
- Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo)
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (Leonora Christina)
- Leopold I (Leopold)
- Libuše
- Linos
- Lionardo Ricardi (Lionardo)
- Lizzie Meering (Lizzie)
- Lord of Château-Guyon
- Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo)
- Louis Boulanger (Boulanger)
- Louis I, Duke of Orléans (Louis of Orléans)
- Louis IX of France (Saint Louis)
- Louis-Onze (Charles's fool) (Louis-Onze)
- Louise Labé
- Ludwig van Beethoven (Beethoven)
- Luisa Wanka (Luisa)
- Lupi
- Machal
- Madame Lamort
- Madame Legrand
- Mademoiselle
- Magdalena
- Malte Laurids Brigge (Malte)
- Malte's father
- Malte's mother
- Marcantonio Priuli (Marcantonio)
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
- Margarete Brigge (Frau Margarete Brigge)
- Maria Nagaya
- Mariana
- Mariana Alcoforado (the Portuguese nun)
- Marie
- Marie Holzer (Marie)
- Marie-Anne de Bourbon-Condé, Mademoiselle de Clermont (Marie-Anne de Clermont)
- Marina Mniszech
- Mary Magdalene (Magdalene)
- Mary of Egypt
- Mathilde
- Mathilde Brahe
- Mechthild of Magdeburg (Mechthild)
- Melchisedech
- Michel Colombe (Colombe)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (Michelangelo)
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Nadar
- Naomi
- Napoleone Orsini Frangipani (Napoleone Orsini)
- Narcissus
- Nathalie de Goloubeff (Mme de Goloubeff)
- Nicolò Priuli
- Nikolai Kusmitsch
- Nikolai Nekrasov (Nekrasov)
- Norinski
- Octave Mirbeau (Mirbeau)
- Odette de Champdivers
- Old Abraham (Abraham)
- Old Land (old Land)
- Old Timofei (old Timofei)
- Olivier de la Marche
- Onan
- Orpheus
- Osip Nikiforovitch (Osip)
- Ostap
- Otte Brahe
- Otto von Rilke
- Palla degli Albizzi (Palla)
- Paolo Malatesta (Paolo)
- Paris Bordone (Bordone)
- Parzival
- Pátek
- Patricio Lynch (General Lynch)
- Paul
- Paul Verlaine (Verlaine)
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Calderón)
- Peter Akimovitch (Peter)
- Peter Akimovitch's daughter (the ugly one)
- Peter of Luxembourg
- Pharaoh
- Philip of Baden
- Phryne
- Pierre d'Aubusson
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Puvis de Chavannes)
- Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (David d'Angers)
- Plato
- Pomponius Gauricus (Gauricus)
- Pope John XXII (John XXII)
- Pope Julius II (Julius II)
- Pope Nicholas III (Nicholas III)
- Prince of Taranto
- Princess Aglaja (Aglaja)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Tchaikovsky)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson)
- Raphael
- Rembrandt van Rijn (Rembrandt)
- René II of Lorraine (René of Lorraine)
- Resi
- Rezek
- Richard Beer-Hofmann (Beer-Hofmann)
- Richard Wagner (Wagner)
- Roger Marx (Roger-Marx)
- Rosalka
- Rose Beuret (Madame Rodin)
- Rose of Lima
- Rudolf Kassner (Kassner)
- Ruth
- Saint Anne (St. Anne)
- Saint Augustine of Hippo (Augustine)
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria (St. Catherine)
- Saint Dmitri
- Saint Geneviève (Geneviève)
- Saint George (George)
- Saint Jean de Dieu (Jean de Dieu)
- Saint Jerome
- Saint John of Nepomuk (Nepomuk)
- Saint Luke
- Saint Michael the Archangel (Saint Michael)
- Saint Nicholas (St Nicholas)
- Saint Paul (St Paul)
- Saint Sebastian
- Saint Wenceslas (Wenceslas)
- Samson
- Samuel
- Sappho
- Saul
- Schack von Staffeldt (Schack-Staffeldt)
- Schileder
- Sebastian Melmoth (Melmoth)
- Severyn Nalyvaiko (Nalyvaiko)
- Sieversen
- Simeon Stylites (the Stylite)
- Sisowath (King Sisowath)
- Socrates
- Sophie
- Sperling
- St John of Nepomuk (Nepomuk)
- St John the Baptist (St John)
- St Thomas the Apostle (Thomas)
- Sten (Count Brahe's valet) (Sten)
- Sten Rosensparre
- Stéphane Mallarmé (Mallarmé)
- Teresa of Ávila (Saint Theresa)
- The Bread-Countess (the Bread-Countess)
- The Buddha (the Buddha)
- The Centurion (the captain)
- The Count of Brederode (Brederode)
- The Count of Saint-Germain (Saint-Germain)
- the Delle Viste
- the gravedigger
- the Imperial Councillor (the Councillor)
- The Maenads (Maenads)
- The Magi (the Magi)
- The Marchesa (eldest Schulin sister) (the Marchesa)
- the Marquis
- The neighbor woman (the neighbor)
- the old Countess Brahe (Countess Brahe)
- The Prodigal Son (the Prodigal Son)
- The Pythia (the Pythia)
- The schoolmaster (the schoolmaster)
- The Sibyl (the Sibyl)
- The strange man (the stranger)
- The Virgin Mary (the Virgin)
- The Witch of Endor (the woman at Endor)
- the young musician
- Théodule Ribot (Ribot)
- Théophile Gautier (Gautier)
- Titian
- Tobias
- Tomaso
- Tullia d'Aragona (Tullia)
- Ugolino della Gherardesca (Ugolino)
- Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve (Ulrik Christian)
- Ustyonka
- Uzziah
- Valentina Visconti
- Vasily Shuisky (Shuisky)
- Vasily the Blessed (Vasily)
- Vasily Vereshchagin (Vereshchagin)
- Victor Hugo (Hugo)
- Vincent van Gogh (van Gogh)
- Virgil
- Vitězlav Bohusch (Bohusch's father)
- Vittore Carpaccio (Carpaccio)
- Walter Scott
- Wenceslaus IV (Wenceslaus)
- William Shakespeare (Shakespeare)
- Wjera Schulin (Wjera)
- Wormius
- Yakiv Ostryanytsia (Ostryanytsia)
- Yegor Timofeyevich (Yegor)
- Zdenko Wanka (Zdenko)
- Zoë Schulin (Zoë)
- Zosimas (the old man)
Places
- Abbey of Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis)
- Acropolis
- Alyscamps
- Amaliengade (the Amaliengade)
- Antwerp
- Arc de Triomphe
- Archbishop's Palace
- Arras
- Avignon
- Beauvais
- Bellevue
- Belvedere
- Bethlehem
- Bibliothèque nationale (the National Library)
- Bohemia
- Borgeby-Gård
- Boulevard Saint-Michel
- Bredgade (the Bredgade)
- Brückengasse (the Brückengasse)
- Bruges
- Brussels
- Burgundy
- Calais
- Cambodia
- Campeche
- Cana
- Capri
- Carinthia
- Castle Stairs
- Champs-Élysées (the Champs-Élysées)
- Charles Bridge (the stone bridge)
- Chartres
- Château de Boussac (Boussac)
- Chernigov
- Church of St Nicholas (St Nicholas)
- Clam-Gallas Park (the Clam-Gallas park)
- Comédie-Française
- Copenhagen
- Czech Theatre of Prague (the Czech Theatre)
- Czernin Palace (the Czernin Palace)
- Daliborka (the Daliborka)
- Dépôt des Marbres (the Dépôt des Marbres)
- Dijon
- Dronningens Tværgade
- Duchy of Friedland (Friedland)
- Eckernförde
- Egypt
- Emmaus Monastery, Prague (Emmaus)
- Endor
- Europe
- Ferdinandstraße
- Flanders
- Florence
- Forest of Argilly (Argilly)
- Forest of Senlis (Senlis)
- Forest of Soignes (Soignes)
- France
- Frauenberg
- Furnes
- Ghent
- Gibeon
- Grandson
- Gränitz
- Guernsey
- Hamburg
- Hieronymus-Gasse
- Hôpital de la Trinité (Trinity Hospital)
- Hôtel de Biron
- Hotel Phönix
- Hôtel Saint-Pol (Hôtel de Saint-Pol)
- Hôtel-Dieu de Paris (Hôtel-Dieu)
- Hradčany (the Hradschin)
- Hradschin (Prague Castle) (the Hradschin)
- Hungary
- Île de la Cité (the Cité)
- Isfahan
- Italy
- Jardin d'Acclimatation
- Jardin des Plantes (the Jardin des Plantes)
- Jardin des Tuileries (the Tuileries)
- Jardin du Luxembourg (the Luxembourg)
- Jericho
- Jerusalem
- Judea
- Karlshof (Karlov) (the Karlshof)
- Karnak
- Kiev
- Königsaal (Zbraslav) (Königsaal)
- Krumau
- Krumau Castle
- Kuchelbad
- La Salpêtrière (the Salpêtrière)
- Langelinie (the Langelinie)
- Langenau
- Laurenziberg
- Lausanne
- Les Baux-de-Provence (Les Baux)
- Lesser Town (the Lesser Town)
- Lesser Town Bridge Tower (the bridge-tower)
- Linda
- Lycia
- Lystager
- Maltese Church
- Malvazinka (Malvasinka)
- Malvazinka Cemetery (the Malvazinka)
- Meroë
- Meudon
- Mont-Valérien (the Mont-Valérien)
- Moscow
- Munich
- Musée du Luxembourg (the Luxembourg)
- Mytilene
- Nancy
- Naples
- National Café (the National Café)
- Netherlands
- New Town (the New Town)
- Notre-Dame de Paris (Notre-Dame)
- Nusle
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague (Beth Chaim)
- Old Town
- Old Town Square, Prague (the Ring)
- Palazzo Foscari
- Palazzo Pitti (the Pitti)
- Palazzo Strozzi
- Panthéon (the Panthéon)
- Paradise
- Paris
- Persia
- Pisa
- Place Saint-Michel (the Place St-Michel)
- Podskalí (the Podskal)
- Pont de l'Alma (the Pont de l'Alma)
- Pont du Carrousel (the bridge)
- Pont Neuf (the Pont Neuf)
- Porta San Niccolò
- Powder Tower
- Prague
- Prague Astronomical Clock (the Orloj)
- Raab (the Raab)
- Red Square
- Roman Theatre of Orange (theatre at Orange)
- Rome
- Roskilde
- Rudolfinum
- rue de l'Université (the rue de l'Université)
- Rue de Seine (rue de Seine)
- rue des Grands-Augustins (the rue des Grands-Augustins)
- Rue des Martyrs (rue des Martyrs)
- Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs (rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs)
- Rue Racine (rue Racine)
- Rue Saint-Denis (rue Saint-Denis)
- Rue Saint-Jacques (rue Saint-Jacques)
- Rue Toullier (rue Toullier)
- Rumburg
- Russia
- Saint Petersburg (Petersburg)
- Saint-Cyr
- Saint-Sulpice
- San Giorgio Maggiore
- San Marco
- Santa Croce
- Santa Maria della Victoria
- Santa Maria Formosa
- Santissima Annunziata (the Annunziata)
- Šárka
- Scandinavia
- Schmargendorf
- Schwabing
- Schwarzenberg Palace
- Sèvres
- Shiraz
- Smíchov
- Sorø Academy (Sorø)
- Spornergasse (the Spornergasse)
- St Vitus Cathedral (St Vitus)
- St Wenceslas Penitentiary (the penitentiary)
- Stag Moat (Hirschgraben) (the Stag Moat)
- Subiaco
- Tanagra
- The Alhambra (the Alhambra)
- The Apennines (the Apennines)
- the Arsenale (the Arsenal)
- the Baumgarten (Baumgarten)
- the Dnieper
- the Ganges (Ganges)
- the Garden of Eden (Eden)
- the Graben
- The Great Sphinx of Giza (the Sphinx)
- the Heinrichsgasse (Heinrichsgasse)
- the Jordan
- the Kremlin
- the Letny Sad (the Summer Garden)
- The Loreto (Loreta) (the Loreto)
- The Louvre (the Louvre)
- the Neva
- the Nile
- The North Sea (the North Sea)
- The Paris Morgue (the Morgue)
- the Ponte di Rialto (the Rialto)
- the Porta Romana (Porta Romana)
- the Stern (Stern)
- The Thebaid (the Thebaïs)
- the Ukraine
- the Venetian Ghetto (the Ghetto)
- the Zaporozhian Sich (the Sich)
- Tortuga
- Touraine
- Trocadéro (the Trocadéro)
- Týn Church (the Týn)
- Ulsgaard
- Uri
- Urnekloster
- Val-de-Grâce
- Vendée
- Venice
- Veracruz (Vera Cruz)
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vienna
- Vikárka (the Vikárka)
- Villa Borghese (Borghese)
- Villa des Brillants (the Villa des Brillants)
- Vltava (the Vltava)
- Vyšehrad (the Vyšehrad)
- Wolschany Cemeteries (the Wolschan)
- Ziegra
- Žižkov
- Zum Hecht (The Pike) (the Pike)
Institutions
- Barnabite sisters (the Barnabites)
- Confrérie de la Passion (Brotherhood of the Passion)
- Order of the Golden Fleece (the Golden Fleece)
- Streltsy
- The Beguines (the Beguines)
- the Bernstorff circle
- the Great Council of Venice (Great Council)
- The Salon (Paris) (the Salon)
- Ursuline Convent, Prague (the Ursulines)
Events
Festivals
Gods and divinities
External texts
- Čas
- De Sculptura
- Der Müller und sein Kind (The Miller and his Child)
- Divina Commedia
- Dyuk Stepanovich
- Hamlet
- Kde domov můj
- Königinhof Manuscript
- La Dame à la licorne (the Lady and the Unicorn)
- La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier (Saint-Julien-l'Hospitalier)
- Le Chemin de long estude (The Way of Long Learning)
- Les Fleurs du mal (Fleurs du mal)
- Pan Tadeusz
- Slave Songs
- The Sorrows of Young Werther (Werther)
- Trionfo di Bacco ed Arianna (Trionfo)
- Tschesky curir
- Une Charogne
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