[12] Readers of Mr. Browning’s “Dramatic Idylls” will remember “Ivan Ivanovitch.”
[13] Lord, or Sir.
[14] Driver.
[15] His heir would have been the wayward, eccentric Constantine, who, in such a crisis, could not have maintained his position for a month.
[16] De Maistre.
[17] Madame de Stael, “Dix Années d’Exil.”
[18] An eye-witness tells us “how the image of St. Sergius was presented to the young Czar, whose handsome face, surrounded by the old banners in the dimly-lighted church, had a most picturesque effect.” (See the “Memoirs of Madame Junot.”)
[19] All these particulars, as well as those of the meeting in the Hall of the Merchants, are historical.
[20] Elected annually from their own body. His munificent donation was paid the next day.
[21] Madame de Stael.