[34] St. Petersburg.—Translator.
[35] To the holy pictures.—Translator.
[36] See [note on p. 273].—Translator.
[37] He had been a staff-officer in the civil service, according to Peter the Great's Table of Ranks.—Translator.
[38] These numerous maids, in the old serf days, were employed in making the most exquisite linen, lace, embroidery, and so forth.—Translator.
[39] The beard was regarded as a mark of peasant origin.—Translator.
[40] Neither field-serfs nor the superior house-serfs were addressed by their patronymic (like the nobility). Dunyásha is the diminutive of Avdóty.—Translator.
[41] It is customary to have a holy picture, with a shrine-lamp filled with olive-oil burning before it, in bedrooms.—Translator.
[42] The difference in value between paper and silver money was considerable in those days, and the sort of currency is generally specified.—Translator.
[43] In Russian: "Berries from the same field."—Translator.