Footnotes

  1. In Russian, “silen.” ↩

  2. A proverbial expression in Russia. ↩

  3. Grushenka. ↩

  4. i.e. setter dog. ↩

  5. Probably the public event was the Decabrist plot against the Tsar, of December 1825, in which the most distinguished men in Russia were concerned.—TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. ↩

  6. When a monk’s body is carried out from the cell to the church and from the church to the graveyard, the canticle “What earthly joy…” is sung. If the deceased was a priest as well as a monk the canticle “Our Helper and Defender” is sung instead. ↩

  7. i.e. a chime of bells. ↩

  8. Literally: “Did you get off with a long nose made at you?”—a proverbial expression in Russia for failure. ↩

  9. Gogol is meant. ↩

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