[1] Nízhni Nóvgorod: it means Lower New Town.
[2] Nearly twenty-six and a half miles.
[3] Water-boiler for making Russian tea.
[4] A team of three horses harnessed abreast: the outside two gallop;
the shaft horse trots.
[5] Diminutive of Iván. John.
[6] Chetyá Minyéi.
[7] Son of Semyón.
[8] Son of Dmitry (or Dmítrievitch; see page 137).