[11] Landowners
[12] Dissenters in Russia are subjected to numerous religious restrictions. Therefore they are obliged to bribe the local orthodox pope, in order that he should not denounce them to the police.
[13] There is a Russian superstition that a round rainbow is sent as a sign of coming dry weather.
[14] Kasha and stchee are two national dishes.
[15] The mud and water from the high lands on both sides descend and collect in the villages so situated, which are often nearly transformed into swamps during the rainy season.
[16] On feast days the peasants often pawn their clothes for drink.
[17] Well-known popular characters in Russia.
[18] Each landowner kept his own band of musicians.
[19] The halting-place for prisoners on their way to Siberia.
[20] The tax collector, the landlord, and the priest.