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''The Newest Plutarch'' (Новейший Плутарх), full name: ''The Newest Plutarch. The Illustrated Biographical Thesaurus of Imagined Famous Personalities of all Times and Nations'' (''Новейший Плутарх. Иллюстрированный биографический словарь воображаемых знаменитых деятелей всех стран и времен'') is a Soviet {{Mockumentary}} book, written by a group of four Soviet scholar inmates serving terms in the same cell at the Vladimir Central Prison in the 40s-50s. Their names were Daniil Alshiz (only made a single article), Daniil Andreev, Vasiliy Parin and Lev Rakov. The last one had made three copies of the book upon being released, with the printed edition based on one of them (and no, none of them died in prison, although Andreev only survived for just under two years due after release to health problems).
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''The Newest Plutarch'' (Новейший Плутарх), full name: ''The Newest Plutarch. The Illustrated Biographical Thesaurus of Imagined Famous Personalities of all Times and Nations'' (''Новейший Плутарх. Иллюстрированный биографический словарь воображаемых знаменитых деятелей всех стран и времен'') is a Soviet {{Mockumentary}} book, written by a group of four Soviet scholar inmates serving terms in the same cell at the Vladimir Central Prison in the 40s-50s. Their names were Daniil Alshiz (only made a single article), Daniil Andreev, Vasiliy Parin and Lev Rakov. The last one had made three copies of the book upon being released, with the printed edition based on one of them (and no, none of them died in prison, although Andreev only survived for just under two years due after release due to health problems).
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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Johann Zhong. A revolt erupted when he attempted to make it mandatory in Karjakapta.
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Death by doing something related to your job doesn't sound like irony to me. Has to be more "poetic" than that
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* ArtEvolution: Inverted with Stanislav Psedombski, who started with extremely realistic pictures and shifted toward cubism toward the end.
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* ArtEvolution: Inverted with Stanislav Psedombski, who Psedombski started with extremely realistic pictures and shifted toward cubism toward the end.
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** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
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** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Johann Zhong. A revolt erupted when he attempted to enforce it on others.
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* {{Nerd}}: Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
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* BackFromTheDead: Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn believed that a person will come back from the dead if a million people believe they will. [[CaptainObvious It Didn't Work]].
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* BackFromTheDead: Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn believed that a person will come back from the dead if a million people believe they will. [[CaptainObvious It Didn't Work]].
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* AltumVidetur: Count Schwartzdorf was big on these, along with GratuitousFrench.
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* GratuitousLatin: Count Schwartzdorf was big use of Latin, along with GratuitousFrench.
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* FatalMethodActing: Walter Monks.
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* FatalMethodActing: Walter Monks.[[invoked]]
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* NoStuntDouble: Walter Monks.
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* NoStuntDouble: Walter Monks.[[invoked]]
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* BookDumb: Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
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* {{Nerd}}: Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
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* ThumbtackOnTheChair: According to Osipko Khripunov's biography, Ivan the Terrible, when a senior nobleman once complained that he's supposed to sit by the Czar's side, told hm to sit next to him... while putting a needle in the chair. Khripunov has then gained the Czar's favor by asking to sit on that chair despite the needle.
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* ThumbtackOnTheChair: According to Osipko Khripunov's biography, Ivan the Terrible, when a senior nobleman once complained that he's supposed to sit by the Czar's side, told hm him to sit next to him... do just that... while putting a needle in the chair.seat. Khripunov has then gained the Czar's favor by asking to sit on that chair despite the needle.
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* DeathByIrony:
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
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* IronicDeath:
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
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* AltumVidetur: Count Schwartzdorf was big on these, along with GratitiousFrench.
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* AltumVidetur: Count Schwartzdorf was big on these, along with GratitiousFrench.GratuitousFrench.
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''The Newest Plutarch'' (Новейший Плутарх), full name: ''The Newest Plutarch. The Illustrated Biographical Thesaurus of Imagined Famous Personalities of all Times and Nations'' (''Новейший Плутарх. Иллюстрированный биографический словарь воображаемых знаменитых деятелей всех стран и времен'') is a Soviet {{Mockumentary}} book, written by a group of four Soviet scholar inmates serving terms in the same cell at the Vladimir Central Prison in the 40s-50s. Their names were Daniil Alshiz (only made a single article), Daniil Andreev, Vasiliy Parin and Lev Rakov. The last one had made three copies of the book upon being released, with the printed edition based on one of them (and no, none of them died in prison, although Andreev only survived for just under two years due after release to health problems).
The book consists of a number of articles describing the lives of supposedly famous people. Some are easily recognizable as real persons with only minimal changes, others are completely made up. There are a number of illustrations, mostly black and white.
Note: since no translation to English seems to exist, the rendering of the names might be incorrect.
!!Tropes:
* AbductionIsLove: Noorden's biography has it [[GenderInvertedTrope gender reversed]].
* AltumVidetur: Count Schwartzdorf was big on these, along with GratitiousFrench.
* AmoralAttorney: Georgy Krasovich, who exonerated people guilty of the most vile crimes and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial most certainly not for the money]].
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Avalokiteshvara-Chkhandogiya Ramadas averted the usual concentration on cuter creatures by defending the rights of parasites.
* ArtEvolution: Inverted with Stanislav Psedombski, who started with extremely realistic pictures and shifted toward cubism toward the end.
* BackFromTheDead: Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn believed that a person will come back from the dead if a million people believe they will. [[CaptainObvious It Didn't Work]].
* BookDumb: Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
* CannibalTribe: Kwak Ma Lung originates from one.
* CoolTeacher: Puchkov-Proshkin had an interesting view on military education.
* {{Cult}}:
** Robert Thomas Jones [[DeathSeeker Accelerants]].
** Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn’s Internation Society for the Resurrection of Dead.
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Walter Monks’ last movie was a major hit due to him dying on set.
* DeathSeeker: Robert Thomas Jones, creator of the Accelerant sect, wrote in his works that it’s a person’s true purpose to leave this plane of existence as soon as possible. When brought to court on charges of encouraging death and suicide, he pointed out he never mentioned the word “death”, “suicide”, nor any calls for doing either.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Isaac Izzagardiner's operation has revealed some unforeseen side effects.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Johann Zhong. A revolt erupted when he attempted to enforce it on others.
* FarEast: Johann Menelik Confucius Zhong, the ruler of Karjakapta.
* FatalMethodActing: Walter Monks.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Pierre Janin, with his TimTaylorTechnology attitude, ended up being flung into space along with his latest UsefulNotes/HighSpeedRail model.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: Richard Smith's methods aren't elaborated upon, but seem to be Good Taming.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Robert Ross' human-ape hybrids.
* HybridPower: The pigerots.
* HypocriticalHumor: Robert Thomas Jones, with his DeathSeeker sect, started receiving a lot of criticism toward the age of sixty for refusing to follow his own doctrine.
* IdenticalPanelGag: Fyodor Agathonov's paintings.
* InstantMessengerPigeon: John-Lincoln Baird has bred a species of superfast pigeon/parrot hybrid. Somewhat averted: they are explicitly stated to need special gear for scaring off predators and carry food for long journeys.
* IronicDeath:
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: Johann Zhong.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Baird's pigerots can deliver spoken messages, but a drug had to be invented to stop them from repeating old messages to new clients.
* MadArtist: Kikumaro, in order to know how a broken-hearted women behaves, drove a girl to suicide.
* MagneticWeapons: Porphyry Yasherkin had plan of these… without having the slightest bit of idea about the engineering required.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Benito Umberti's Gimnastyco style invokes it deliberately. The whole idea is making a house that makes you stronger by being an obstacle course.
* MayDecemberRomance: Noorden, a 75 year old man in a wheelchair, was [[AbductionIsLove abducted]] by a 20 year old girl.
* TheMedic: Menander Parasangit.
* TheMissionary: Reverend Stokes and Harry Browning, from Kwak Ma Lung’s biography.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The basic style of the book.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Izzagardiner's obsession was increasing the number of a man's teeth for health reasons.
* NeverSayDie: Robert Thomas Jones, when accused of promoting suicide, was cleared in court by virtue of this trope.
* NoStuntDouble: Walter Monks.
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Baird's pigerots are used to deliver spoken messages. However, there was a problem with them repeating old messages until a pill was made to erase old recording from their minds.
* OneGenderRace: Robert Ross had managed to create a human-ape hybrid, but it only allowed for male specimens, and sterile ones to boot.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Isaac Izzagardiner didn’t find anyone who would agree to undergo the procedure he devised.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Due to the controversy around Ligeiro's experiments, he joined a polar expedition.
* ShoutOut: Mikhail Philippov’s works have titles referring to numerous Russian classics, such as ''[[Literature/EugeneOnegin Eugene Mologin]]'', and ''[[{{Literature/Oblomov}} Obrezov]]''.
* ShownTheirWork: The authors were professors of history, and one a physiologist, and it shows.
* SplashOfColor: The "Ligeiro Albina" illustrations.
* SwallowedWhole: Richard Smith's tricks included him being swallowed and then regurgitated by a boa.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Pierre Janin's trains tended to fall victim to GoneHorriblyWrong due to this trope… until one has GoneHorriblyRight.
* ThumbtackOnTheChair: According to Osipko Khripunov's biography, Ivan the Terrible, when a senior nobleman once complained that he's supposed to sit by the Czar's side, told hm to sit next to him... while putting a needle in the chair. Khripunov has then gained the Czar's favor by asking to sit on that chair despite the needle.
* WarriorPoet: Puchkov-Proshkin wasn't much of warrior, due to working in the education department, but he was certainly a popular writer.
* WhiteLikeMe: Esteban Ligeiro's "Ligeiro Albino", a chemical for turning black people white. First, there was a lot of controversy, then it turned out there are side effects… then [[spoiler:[[ShaggyDogStory it turned out to be temporary]]]].
The book consists of a number of articles describing the lives of supposedly famous people. Some are easily recognizable as real persons with only minimal changes, others are completely made up. There are a number of illustrations, mostly black and white.
Note: since no translation to English seems to exist, the rendering of the names might be incorrect.
!!Tropes:
* AbductionIsLove: Noorden's biography has it [[GenderInvertedTrope gender reversed]].
* AltumVidetur: Count Schwartzdorf was big on these, along with GratitiousFrench.
* AmoralAttorney: Georgy Krasovich, who exonerated people guilty of the most vile crimes and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial most certainly not for the money]].
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Avalokiteshvara-Chkhandogiya Ramadas averted the usual concentration on cuter creatures by defending the rights of parasites.
* ArtEvolution: Inverted with Stanislav Psedombski, who started with extremely realistic pictures and shifted toward cubism toward the end.
* BackFromTheDead: Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn believed that a person will come back from the dead if a million people believe they will. [[CaptainObvious It Didn't Work]].
* BookDumb: Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
* CannibalTribe: Kwak Ma Lung originates from one.
* CoolTeacher: Puchkov-Proshkin had an interesting view on military education.
* {{Cult}}:
** Robert Thomas Jones [[DeathSeeker Accelerants]].
** Mary-Betsi-Ophelia Osborn’s Internation Society for the Resurrection of Dead.
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Walter Monks’ last movie was a major hit due to him dying on set.
* DeathSeeker: Robert Thomas Jones, creator of the Accelerant sect, wrote in his works that it’s a person’s true purpose to leave this plane of existence as soon as possible. When brought to court on charges of encouraging death and suicide, he pointed out he never mentioned the word “death”, “suicide”, nor any calls for doing either.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Isaac Izzagardiner's operation has revealed some unforeseen side effects.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Johann Zhong. A revolt erupted when he attempted to enforce it on others.
* FarEast: Johann Menelik Confucius Zhong, the ruler of Karjakapta.
* FatalMethodActing: Walter Monks.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Pierre Janin, with his TimTaylorTechnology attitude, ended up being flung into space along with his latest UsefulNotes/HighSpeedRail model.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: Richard Smith's methods aren't elaborated upon, but seem to be Good Taming.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Robert Ross' human-ape hybrids.
* HybridPower: The pigerots.
* HypocriticalHumor: Robert Thomas Jones, with his DeathSeeker sect, started receiving a lot of criticism toward the age of sixty for refusing to follow his own doctrine.
* IdenticalPanelGag: Fyodor Agathonov's paintings.
* InstantMessengerPigeon: John-Lincoln Baird has bred a species of superfast pigeon/parrot hybrid. Somewhat averted: they are explicitly stated to need special gear for scaring off predators and carry food for long journeys.
* IronicDeath:
** Pierre Janin once his newest train reached orbital velocity.
** Isaac Izzagrdiner, with his operation (intended for making people healthy) causing gangrene due to unforeseen side effects.
** Richard Smith was killed by a panther he tamed – not because it acted as a beast, but because it was jealous like a human.
** Benito Umberti fell to his death while navigating his Gymnastyco villa.
** Johann Zhong, with his DoesNotLikeShoes policy, died from sepsis caused by a shard of glass in his foot.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: Johann Zhong.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Baird's pigerots can deliver spoken messages, but a drug had to be invented to stop them from repeating old messages to new clients.
* MadArtist: Kikumaro, in order to know how a broken-hearted women behaves, drove a girl to suicide.
* MagneticWeapons: Porphyry Yasherkin had plan of these… without having the slightest bit of idea about the engineering required.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Benito Umberti's Gimnastyco style invokes it deliberately. The whole idea is making a house that makes you stronger by being an obstacle course.
* MayDecemberRomance: Noorden, a 75 year old man in a wheelchair, was [[AbductionIsLove abducted]] by a 20 year old girl.
* TheMedic: Menander Parasangit.
* TheMissionary: Reverend Stokes and Harry Browning, from Kwak Ma Lung’s biography.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The basic style of the book.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Izzagardiner's obsession was increasing the number of a man's teeth for health reasons.
* NeverSayDie: Robert Thomas Jones, when accused of promoting suicide, was cleared in court by virtue of this trope.
* NoStuntDouble: Walter Monks.
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Baird's pigerots are used to deliver spoken messages. However, there was a problem with them repeating old messages until a pill was made to erase old recording from their minds.
* OneGenderRace: Robert Ross had managed to create a human-ape hybrid, but it only allowed for male specimens, and sterile ones to boot.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Isaac Izzagardiner didn’t find anyone who would agree to undergo the procedure he devised.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Due to the controversy around Ligeiro's experiments, he joined a polar expedition.
* ShoutOut: Mikhail Philippov’s works have titles referring to numerous Russian classics, such as ''[[Literature/EugeneOnegin Eugene Mologin]]'', and ''[[{{Literature/Oblomov}} Obrezov]]''.
* ShownTheirWork: The authors were professors of history, and one a physiologist, and it shows.
* SplashOfColor: The "Ligeiro Albina" illustrations.
* SwallowedWhole: Richard Smith's tricks included him being swallowed and then regurgitated by a boa.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Pierre Janin's trains tended to fall victim to GoneHorriblyWrong due to this trope… until one has GoneHorriblyRight.
* ThumbtackOnTheChair: According to Osipko Khripunov's biography, Ivan the Terrible, when a senior nobleman once complained that he's supposed to sit by the Czar's side, told hm to sit next to him... while putting a needle in the chair. Khripunov has then gained the Czar's favor by asking to sit on that chair despite the needle.
* WarriorPoet: Puchkov-Proshkin wasn't much of warrior, due to working in the education department, but he was certainly a popular writer.
* WhiteLikeMe: Esteban Ligeiro's "Ligeiro Albino", a chemical for turning black people white. First, there was a lot of controversy, then it turned out there are side effects… then [[spoiler:[[ShaggyDogStory it turned out to be temporary]]]].
