Note 19 — 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

Senkovsky, Joseph Ivanovitch (1800–1878), of Polish origin, was a whimsical critic on the reactionary side who placed a miserable poetaster, Timofeyev, above Pushkin and preferred Le Sage to Fielding. Under the pseudonym Baron Brambàeus, he wrote sensational and bombastic novels. He edited a serial publication the Library of Good Reading, employing poor young men of talent to write for it.—(Translator’s Note.)