Book 5 — FOOTNOTES:
Marr Murray translation
1 (return) [ A retail shop and tavern combined.]
2 (return) [ A verst is a measure of length, about 3500 English feet.]
3 (return) [ Ermolov, i.e. General Ermolov. Russians have three names—Christian name, patronymic and surname. They are addressed by the first two only. The surname of Maksim Maksimych (colloquial for Maksimovich) is not mentioned.]
4 (return) [ The bell on the duga, a wooden arch joining the shafts of a Russian conveyance over the horse’s neck.]
5 (return) [ Rocky Ford.]
6 (return) [ A kind of beer made from millet.]
7 (return) [ i.e. acknowledging Russian supremacy.]
8 (return) [ A kind of two-stringed or three-stringed guitar.]
9 (return) [ “Good—very good.”]
10 (return) [ Turkish for “Black-eye.”]
11 (return) [ “No!”]
12 (return) [ A particular kind of ancient and valued sabre.]
13 (return) [ King—a title of the Sultan of Turkey.]
14 (return) [ I beg my readers’ pardon for having versified Kazbich’s song, which, of course, as I heard it, was in prose; but habit is second nature. (Author’s note.)]
151 (return) [ “No! Russian—bad, bad!”]
15 (return) [ Krestov is an adjective meaning “of the cross” (Krest=cross); and, of course, is not the Russian for “Christophe.”]
16 (return) [ A legendary Russian hero whose whistling knocked people down.]
17 (return) [ Lezghian dance.]
18 (return) [ In Russian—okaziya=occasion, adventure, etc.; chto za okaziya=how unfortunate!]
19 (return) [ The duga.]
20 (return) [ “Thou” is the form of address used in speaking to an intimate friend, etc. Pechorin had used the more formal “you.”]
21 (return) [ Team of three horses abreast.]
22 (return) [ Desyatnik, a superintendent of ten (men or huts), i.e. an officer like the old English tithing-man or headborough.]
23 (return) [ Card-games.]
24 (return) [ A Caucasian wine.]
25 (return) [ Pushkin. Compare Shelley’s Adonais, xxxi. 3: “as the last cloud of an expiring storm.”]
26 (return) [ The Snake, the Iron and the Bald Mountains.]
27 (return) [ Nizhegorod is the “government” of which Nizhniy Novgorod is the capital.]
271 (return) [ A popular phrase, equivalent to: “How should I think of doing such a thing?”]
272 (return) [ Published by Senkovski, and under the censorship of the Government.]
273 (return) [ Civil servants of the ninth (the lowest) class.]
28 (return) [ i.e. serfs.]
29 (return) [ Pushkin: Eugene Onyegin.]
30 (return) [ Canto XVIII, 10: ]
“Quinci al bosco t’ invia, dove cotanti] Son fantasmi inganne vole e bugiardi”...]
301 (return) [ None of the Waverley novels, of course, bears this title. The novel referred to is doubtless “Old Mortality,” on which Bellini’s opera, “I Puritani di Scozia,” is founded.]
31 (return) [ Popular phrases, equivalent to: “Men are fools, fortune is blind, and life is not worth a straw.”]