[3] Sheep's-Waters or Springs.--TRANSLATOR.
[4] Easter.--TRANSLATOR.
[5] A decidedly vulgar pun in the original.--TRANSLATOR.
[6] Derived from _tchulók_, stocking.--TRANSLATOR.
[7] Meaning male serfs. The women and children were not
reckoned.--TRANSLATOR.
[8] The large music-room, also used for dancing, as a play-room for the
children in winter, and so forth, in Russian houses.--TRANSLATOR.
[9] By M. Y. Lérmontoff.
[10] The pronunciation is also indicated as being faulty.--TRANSLATOR.
[11] Ran themselves off their legs.--TRANSLATOR.
[12] The mazurka, which is still a great favourite in Russia, greatly
resembles the cotillon in everything except the steps, which are
vivacious. Both the cotillon and the mazurka are danced--one before, the
other after supper--at Court balls and other dances.--TRANSLATOR.
[13] Utterly insignificant.--TRANSLATOR.
[14] The page is called a kazák, and dressed accordingly.--TRANSLATOR.
[15] The _burlakí_ on the Volga used to tow the barges from Ástrakhan to
Nízhni Nóvgorod Fair, against the current. The stevedores also are
called _burlakí_, and, as they lade the barges, their chantey runs (more
literally than I have translated it above): "Yet another little time,
yet again,..." and so forth.--TRANSLATOR.