Endnotes

1. From lebyed, a swan. ↩

2. In the poorer quarters of Russian towns a single room is often let out to several families, each of which occupies a “corner.” ↩

3. The reference is to a poem of Derzhavin’s. ↩

4. The reference is to the legend current in the sect of Flagellants. —⁠Translator’s note ↩

5. February 19, 1861, the day of the Emancipation of the Serfs, is meant. —⁠Translator’s note ↩