Endnotes

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. ↩