[49]. Inferior police official, who collects taxes.
[50]. The peasant is satirizing the Russian “Passport regulations,” according to which it is a penal offence for a householder to take in any inmate who cannot show police certificates.
[51]. Colloquial for Mikhail.
[52]. Principal town of any province.
[53]. A famous group of statuary in Moscow.
[54]. A slang term for the gendarmes; probably because their uniforms are “deeply, darkly, beautifully blue,” like the waters of the Mediterranean.—Translator.
[55]. Equipage with three horses.
[56]. Member of the Committee of Inquiry.
[57]. Contemptuous diminutive of Lipàtkin.
[58]. Of the clerical class.