Endnotes
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In Russian, silen. ↩
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A proverbial expression in Russia. ↩
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Grushenka. ↩
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I.e. setter dog. ↩
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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 ↩
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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. ↩
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I.e. a chime of bells. ↩
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Literally: “Did you get off with a long nose made at you?”—a proverbial expression in Russia for failure. ↩
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Gogol is meant. ↩