The book includes biographies and engraved portraits on separate sheets of such great people as: Lafontaine, Goethe, Gustav Adolf, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Schiller, Shakespeare, Mikel-Angelo Buonarotti, Moliere, Henry IV, Rubens, Sully, Canha Ova, Newton, Cornell, Charles XII, Franklin, Frederick II, Suvorov. All biographies presented here are compiled by I. I. Delacroix himself, except for the biography of the immortal Suvorov, written by a connoisseur of Russian history Nikolai Alekseevich Polenov. The original book is not subject to export outside the Russian Federation.