Note Footnotes — Front matter
Aleksandr Herzen translation
FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw. London. 1840.
[2] Du Développement des idées révolutionnaires en Russie. 2 Ed., London, 1853.
[3] Official?—Ed.
[4] Diplomatic?—Ed.
[5] That is, went to confession and communion.—Tr.
[6] Devierre?—Ed.
[7] That is, from meat.—Tr.
[8] Montagnes russes.—Ed.
[9] Probably Dartres.—Ed.
[10] “Quoi, pas une mouche!” Je me mis à rire et lui répondis que c’était pour être plus légèrement habillée.—The English word fails to convey the playfulness of the reply.—Tr.
[11] To make a history of a thing is a common Russian phrase for “to season it with scandal and exaggeration.”—Tr.
[12] Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.—Tr.
[13] A fool (Doura, in Russian).—Ed.
[14] This letter was sent by one of the Grand Duke’s servants, named André, but it was intercepted by Steholin, and the Grand Duchess never received it.
[15] After the perusal of the foregoing Memoirs, it will be interesting to turn to the account which Catherine has given of the revolution which placed her on the throne. It is in the form of a letter, written or dictated by the Empress herself, and appears to have been addressed to Poniatowsky. Although already printed, it is but little known, and the reader, we doubt not, will be glad to have it in this place. We take it from a most interesting work, published at Berlin in 1843, by Schneider, La Cour de la Russie, il y cent ans (The Court of Russia, a hundred years ago).