FOOTNOTES:
[208] See p. [36] and p. [37].
[209] [In the present Russian Government of Vitebsk, to be distinguished from Plotzk, in Polish, Plock, the capital of the Government of the same name in Russian Poland, on the right bank of the Vistula.]
[211] [Pronounced ookaz, with the accent on the last syllable. The original meaning of the word is "indication," "instruction." It is applied to orders issued by the Tzar himself or, in the name of the Tzar, by the Senate.]
[212] Little Russia possessed at that time its own military organization, consisting of regiments and "hundreds," under the command of native officers. At the head of the organization stood the commander-in-chief, called hetman [see p. [143], n. 1].
[213] [The term "resolution" (in Russian, resolutzia) is applied to a decision written by the Tzar in his own hand on the margin of the reports submitted to him.]