Endnotes

1. On many railway lines, in order to avoid accidents, it is against the regulations to carry hay on the trains, and so live stock are without fodder on the journey. ↩

2. The train destined especially for the transport of troops is called the troop train; when they are no troops it takes goods, and goes more rapidly than ordinary goods train. ↩

3. A character in Gogol’s Dead Souls. —Translator ↩

4. Sobol in Russian means “sable-marten.” —Translator ↩

5. The Petchenyegs were a tribe of wild Mongolian nomads who made frequent inroads upon the Russians in the tenth and eleventh centuries. —Translator ↩