1 (return)[ Celebrated general under Petr' Alexiovitch the Great, and the Tzarina Anna Iwanofna; banished by her successor, the Tzarina Elizabeth Petrofna.]
2 (return)[ Savéliitch, son of Savéli.]
3 (return)[ Means pedagogue. Foreign teachers have adopted it to signify their profession.]
4 (return)[ One who has not yet attained full age. Young gentlemen who have not yet served are so called.]
5 (return)[Drorovuiye lyndi, that is to say, courtyard people, or serfs, who inhabit the quarters.]
6 (return)[ Eudosia, daughter of Basil.]
7 (return)[ Diminutive of Petr', Peter.]
8 (return)[ Anastasia, daughter of Garassim]
9 (return)[ Orenburg, capital of the district of Orenburg, which—the most easterly one of European Russia—extends into Asia.]
10 (return)[Touloup, short pelisse, not reaching to the knee.]
11 (return)[ John, son of John.]
12 (return)[ One kopek=small bit of copper money.]
13 (return)[ The rouble was then worth, as is now the silver rouble, about 3s. 4d. English money.]
14 (return)[ "Kvass," kind of cider; common drink in Russia.]
15 (return)[ Whirlwind of snow.]
16 (return)[ Curtain made of the inner bark of the limetree which covers the hood of akibitka.]
17 (return)[ Marriage godfather.]
18 (return)[ Torch of fir or birch.]
19 (return)[ Tributary of the River Ural.]
20 (return)[ Tea urn.]
21 (return)[ A short caftan.]
22 (return)[ Russian priest.]
23 (return)[ Russian peasants carry their axe in their belt or behind their back.]
24 (return)[ Under Catherine II., who reigned from 1762-1796.]
25 (return)[i.e., "palati," usual bed of Russian peasants.]
26 (return)[ Allusion to the rewards given by the old Tzars to theirboyárs, to whom they used to give their cloaks.]
27 (return)[ Anne Ivánofna reigned from 1730-1740.]
28 (return)[ Oneverstáor verst (pronounced viorst) equal to 1,165 yards English.]
29 (return)[ Peasant cottages.]
30 (return)[Loubotchnyia, i.e., coarse illuminated engravings.]
31 (return)[ Taken by Count Münich.]
32 (return)[ John, son of Kouzma.]
33 (return)[ Formula of affable politeness.]
34 (return)[ Subaltern officer of Cossacks.]
35 (return)[ Alexis, son of John.]
36 (return)[ Basila, daughter of Gregory.]
37 (return)[ John, son of Ignatius.]
38 (return)[ The fashion of talking French was introduced under Peter the Great.]
39 (return)[ Diminutive ofMarya, Mary.]
40 (return)[ Russian soup, made of meat and vegetables.]
41 (return)[ In Russia serfs are spoken of as souls.]
42 (return)[ Ivánofna, pronounced Ivánna.]
43 (return)[ Poet, then celebrated, since forgotten.]
44 (return)[ They are written in the already old-fashioned style of the time.]
45 (return)[ Trédiakofski was an absurd poet whom Catherine II. held up to ridicule in her "Rule of the Hermitage!"]
46 (return)[ Scornful way of writing the patronymic.]
47 (return)[ Formula of consent.]
48 (return)[ Oneverchok= 3 inches.]
49 (return)[ Grandson of Peter the Great, succeeded his aunt, Elizabeth Petrofna, in 1762; murdered by Alexis Orloff in prison at Ropsha.]
50 (return)[ Torture of the "batógs," little rods, the thickness of a finger, with which a criminal is struck on the bare back.]
51 (return)[ Edict or ukase of Catherine II.]
52 (return)[ Pugatch means bugbear.]
53 (return)[ Sarafan, dress robe. It is a Russian custom to bury the dead in their best clothes.]
54 (return)[ Girdles worn by Russian peasants.]
55 (return)[ Peter III.]
56 (return)[ Little flat and glazed press where the Icons or Holy Pictures are shut up, and which thus constitutes a domestic altar or home shrine.]
57 (return)[Atamán, military Cossack chief.]
58 (return)[ 1 pétak = 5 kopek copper bit.]
59 (return)[ First of the false Dmitri.]
60 (return)[ Allusion to the old formulas of petitions addressed to the Tzar, "I touch the earth with my forehead and I present my petition to your 'lucid eyes.'"]
61 (return)[ At that time the nostrils of convicts were cut off. This This barbarous custom has been abolished by the Tzar Alexander.]
62 (return)[ Daughter of another Commandant of a Fort, whom Pugatchéf outraged and murdered.]
63 (return)[ Name of a robber celebrated in the preceding century, who fought long against the Imperial troops.]
64 (return)[ In the torture by fire the accused is tied hand and foot; he is then fixed on a long pole, as upon a spit, being held at either end by two men; his bare back is roasted over the fire. He is then examined and abjured by a writer to confess, and any depositions he may make are taken down.]
65 (return)[ Slight skirmish, wherein the advantage remained with Pugatchéf.]
66 (return)[ Frederick, son of Frederick; name given to Frederick the Great by the Russian soldiery.]
67 (return)[ Title of a superior officer.]
68 (return)[ Hazard game at cards.]
69 (return)[ Diminutive of Emelian.]
70 (return)[ Little summer carriage.]
71 (return)[ Fedor Poushkin, a noble of high rank, ancestor of the author, was executed on a charge of treason by Petr' Alexiovitch the Great.]
72 (return)[ Leaders of the Russian faction against John Ernest, Duc de Biren, Grand Chamberlain, and favourite of the Tzarina, Anne Ivanofna. Both were executed in a barbarous manner.]
73 (return)[ Anna, daughter of Blaize.]
74 (return)[ General Romanoff, distinguished in the wars against the Turks, vanquished them at Larga and Kazoul, 1772. He died 1796.]