Note 18 — Chapter 25 Dissonance—A New Circle—Desperate Hegelianism—V. Byelinsky, M. Bakunin, and others—A Quarrel with Byelinsky and Reconciliation—Argument with a Lady at Novgorod—Stankevitch’s Circle.
Constance Garnett translation
Tovjanski was a Pole, and at one time a member of the Society of Philarets. He held that there were many Messiahs, of whom Napoleon was one and himself another.—(Translator’s Note.)