The Daughter of the Commandant

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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[ Russian priest.]

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[ Russian peasants carry their axe in their belt or behind their back.]

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[ Under Catherine II., who reigned from 1762-1796.]

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[ i.e., "palati," usual bed of Russian peasants.]

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[ Allusion to the rewards given by the old Tzars to their boyárs, to whom they used to give their cloaks.]