[32] Another story is told, connecting Alexander’s first acquaintance with the ninety-first psalm with Prince Galitzin, but that given above seems on the whole to be preferable.
[33] A fact.
[34] The ninth of the fourteen official Tchinns, or ranks, recognized by the Russian Government. Each rank in the army has a corresponding grade and title in the civil service.
[35] Any one who has read the letters and proclamations of Count Rostopchine, will be aware that the violence of language attributed to him is very far from being exaggerated.
[36] The Empress Mary, the mother of Alexander, and the Empress Elizabeth, his wife.
[37] De Maistre.
[38] The custom upon such occasions.
[39] The French, during the retreat, formed themselves into little “coteries” of twelve or fifteen. If an outsider tried to join himself to one of these, he was pitilessly driven away to die, sometimes even murdered.
[40] A fact.
[41] Not “earlier than usual,” as the apologists of Napoleon delight in repeating.