Note 16 — Chapter 2 The Talk of Nurses and of Generals—False Position—Russian Encyclopaedists—Boredom—The Maids’ Room and the Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—The Catechism and the Gospel
Constance Garnett translation
Benckendorf, Chief of Gendarmes, and favourite of Nicholas. See Merezhkovsky’s December the Fourteenth for character-study.