[19] An untranslatable word, but frequently rendered as "dear little
father." Count L. N. Tolstoy said to me that there were only two
genuine Russian titles--"_batiushka_" and "_matushka_." In ordinary
life, nowadays, they are the special titles of priests and their wives.
But the Tzar and Tzaritza are so called in ceremonious national songs,
and are so addressed, by peasants, as in the olden days.