| Bella |
Akhmadulina | Soviet-Russian poet |
| Anna |
Akhmatova | Russian-Soviet poet |
| John |
Berryman | American poet |
| Leonid |
Brezhnev | Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR |
| Paul |
Bunyan | Giant lumberjack from American folklore |
| John |
Calvin | French theologian |
| | Czarina |
Female equivalent of a Czar; empress or queen |
| Fyodor |
Dostoevsky | Russian novelist. Aka: D.W. |
| Isadora |
Duncan | Dancer; married to Sergei Yesenin |
| Robert |
Frost | American poet |
| Judy |
Garland | Tragic American celebrity; symbolic figure |
| John Paul |
Getty | American industrialist |
| Jimi |
Hendrix | American guitarist and singer-songwriter |
| Anna |
Hjortsberg | Jim Harrison's daughter |
| Lauren |
Hutton | American model and actress |
| Janis |
Joplin | American rock singer |
| Chief |
Joseph | Indigenous leader who resisted U.S. expansion |
| Vladimir |
Lenin | Former Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars |
| | Leningrad |
Former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Simon |
Magus | Religious figure from the 1st century AD |
| Vladimir |
Mayakovsky | Russian poet and playwright |
| James Douglas |
Morrison | American singer-songwriter and poet. Aka: J.D. |
| Vladimir |
Nabokov | Russian-American novelist and poet |
| | Nevsky Prospekt |
Main historic avenue of St. Petersburg |
| Friedrich |
Nietzsche | German philosopher |
| Vaslav |
Nijinsky | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer |
| Richard |
Nixon | 37th U.S. President |
| Charles |
Olson | American poet |
| Boris |
Pasternak | Russian-Soviet poet and novelist |
| Alexander |
Pushkin | Russian poet and playwright |
| Robert |
Redford | American actor and director |
| Arthur |
Rimbaud | French poet |
| William |
Shakespeare | English playwright and poet |
| Joseph |
Stalin | Revolutionary; former Soviet leader |
| Gertrude |
Stein | Influential American expatriate writer in Paris |
| Francois |
Villon | Celebrated 15th-century French poet |
| W.C. |
Williams | American poet and physician |
| Sergei |
Yesenin | Russian poet |
| Doctor Yuri |
Zhivago | Young doctor raised by his aunt and uncle |
| Cerberus |
| Multi-headed dog from Greek mythology |
| Hulda |
| Biblical prophetess known for wisdom |
| Rachel |
| Symbolic figure representing femininity and earthly desire |
| Sagane |
| Symbolic figure; muse reflecting beauty and chaos |
| Sappho |
| Ancient Greek poet |
