[Footnote 17]: The war against Russia.

[Footnote 18]: This Polish saying of striking out a wedge with a wedge means here, of course, to cure one love with another.

[Footnote 19]: “Others” here = “Russians.”

[Footnote 20]: Prince Yeremi Vishnyevetski.

[Footnote 21]: Volodyovski was from the Ukraine.

[Footnote 22]: Charnyetski was pock-marked.

[Footnote 23]: The Russians.

[Footnote 24]: Saturday.

[Footnote 25]: Friday.

[Footnote 26]: Russians.