[3]. Gorky went to America to raise money to help the Revolutionary Party in Russia, but was hounded out of the country as an immoral man. The newspapers started a campaign against his private life, and despite American sympathy for the cause of “liberty” he was forced to leave the country. No hotel would take him in.
[4]. Since the War vodka has of course disappeared.
[5]. From Gambrinus, Kuprin’s Works, vol. iv.
[6]. V. V. Rozanof, Wall-Painting.
[7]. “The Ikon not made by Hands,” a Russian mystical story in A Vagabond in the Caucasus.
[8]. Cited by the priest Florensky, who copied down the song as he heard it (The Pillar and Foundation of Truth).
[9]. Podvig is a Russian word for holy exploits and victories, especially for those consisting in a denial of the world. See Chapter on podvigs, page [111].
[10]. Podvizhnitchestvo = the life of going on doing podvigs, the continuance of denial of the world.
[11]. The Frontispiece of this book.
[12]. The frontispiece of this book.