FOOTNOTES:
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[ A retail shop and tavern combined.]
2 ([return])
[ A verst is a measure of length, about 3500 English feet.]
3 ([return])
[ Ermolov, i.e. General Ermolov. Russians have three names—Christian name, patronymic and surname. They are addressed by the first two only. The surname of Maksim Maksimych (colloquial for Maksimovich) is not mentioned.]
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[ The bell on the duga, a wooden arch joining the shafts of a Russian conveyance over the horse’s neck.]
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[ Rocky Ford.]
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[ A kind of beer made from millet.]
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[ i.e. acknowledging Russian supremacy.]
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[ A kind of two-stringed or three-stringed guitar.]
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[ “Good—very good.”]
10 ([return])
[ Turkish for “Black-eye.”]
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[ “No!”]
12 ([return])
[ A particular kind of ancient and valued sabre.]
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[ King—a title of the Sultan of Turkey.]
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[ I beg my readers’ pardon for having versified Kazbich’s song, which, of course, as I heard it, was in prose; but habit is second nature. (Author’s note.)]
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[ “No! Russian—bad, bad!”]
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[ Krestov is an adjective meaning “of the cross” (Krest=cross); and, of course, is not the Russian for “Christophe.”]
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[ A legendary Russian hero whose whistling knocked people down.]
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[ Lezghian dance.]
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[ In Russian—okaziya=occasion, adventure, etc.; chto za okaziya=how unfortunate!]
19 ([return])
[ The duga.]
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[ “Thou” is the form of address used in speaking to an intimate friend, etc. Pechorin had used the more formal “you.”]
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[ Team of three horses abreast.]
22 ([return])
[ Desyatnik, a superintendent of ten (men or huts), i.e. an officer like the old English tithing-man or headborough.]
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[ Card-games.]
24 ([return])
[ A Caucasian wine.]
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[ Pushkin. Compare Shelley’s Adonais, xxxi. 3: “as the last cloud of an expiring storm.”]
26 ([return])
[ The Snake, the Iron and the Bald Mountains.]
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[ Nizhegorod is the “government” of which Nizhniy Novgorod is the capital.]
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[ A popular phrase, equivalent to: “How should I think of doing such a thing?”]
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[ Published by Senkovski, and under the censorship of the Government.]
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[ Civil servants of the ninth (the lowest) class.]
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[ i.e. serfs.]
29 ([return])
[ Pushkin: Eugene Onyegin.]
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[ Canto XVIII, 10: ]
“Quinci al bosco t’ invia, dove cotanti]
Son fantasmi inganne vole e bugiardi”...]
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[ None of the Waverley novels, of course, bears this title. The novel referred to is doubtless “Old Mortality,” on which Bellini’s opera, “I Puritani di Scozia,” is founded.]
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[ Popular phrases, equivalent to: “Men are fools, fortune is blind, and life is not worth a straw.”]