Heroes and villains on IB’s study door: key to Picture 1

  1. Alexander Herzen

  3. Vissarion Belinsky

  4. Dmitry Shostakovich

  7. N. K. Mikhailovsky

  8. Vissarion Belinsky

  9. Robert Maxwell (left)

10. Karl Marx

13. Giambattista Vico

14. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden

15. Gaetano Donizetti

17. Alexander Herzen

19. Gaetano Salvemini

20. IB (right)

23. IB (left)

24. Alexander Herzen

28. Karl Marx (right)

29. Vissarion Belinsky

30. G. W. F. Hegel

33. Anna Akhmatova

34. fox

38. N. G. Chernyshevsky

39. Osip Mandel’shtam, Korney Chukovsky, B. K. Livshits, Yury Annenkov

40. E. B. Rein (left) and Joseph Brodsky (right) at Akhmatova’s funeral

41. Stephen Spender

42. Plato, Socrates

43. David Hockney

44. Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son

45. J. F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon

48. C. P. Snow

49. W. A. Mozart

50. David Ben-Gurion, Charles de Gaulle

53. Lord Halifax (left), Neville Chamberlain (centre)

55. Felix Frankfurter

60. Solly Zuckerman (left)

61. Pablo Picasso, Balthus