FOOTNOTES:
[24] June 29 (O. S.)—July 13 (N. S.).—Translator.
[25] Formerly all Moscow houses were obliged to get their water in barrels on wheels from the river or from public fountains. Birch-wood is still used for cooking and heating.—Translator.
[26] A pud is about thirty-six pounds, English.—Translator.
[27] A peculiarly shaped and delicious wheaten roll, which is made particularly well in Moscow.—Translator.
[28] St. Petersburg.—Translator.
[29] Mínin, the burgher of Nízhni Nóvgorod, and Prince Pozhársky, who led the Russians against the invading Poles in 1612, and expelled them from Russia. Their expulsion was followed by the election to the throne of the first Románoff Tzar, Mikhaíl Feódorovitch.—Translator.
[30] These kisses are bestowed on the cheeks, alternately.—Translator.
[31] Amy or Charity.—Translator.