FOOTNOTES:
[2] A comic poem by Count Alexey K. Tolstoi.
[3] Mme. Kolokoltsev was the wife of the landowner N. A. Kolokoltsev. She suffered from nervous disorder and made several attempts at suicide. In spite of constant observation, she managed one night to make the blanket on the bed into a figure, and thus deceived her husband. She went into his study, opened the drawer of his table with a skeleton key, took out his revolver and shot herself. She was an elderly woman, the mother of two grown-up daughters.
[4] G. S. Petrov, a publicist and politician who started his career as a preacher of the Church and then resigned his priesthood.
[5] Called in its final version, After the Ball.
[6] N. V. Orlov, a painter from the people, of whose pictures Tolstoi was very fond. Reproductions of most of his paintings hang in Tolstoi’s room.
[7] The brother of the well-known editor M. N. Katkov.