Note 1 — THE DREAM
Clarence Augustus Manning translation
German. It is usually assumed that Shevchenko is using the word German to mean foreign, i.e. Muscovite or Great Russian. There is very probably an allusion to the hold that the German bureaucracy had over the entire empire. Only a few years before, the famous marshal Suvorov in answer to a request from the tsar as to what reward he desired, answered: “Your Majesty, make me a German.” The following years had not broken the hold of this clique upon the Russian administration. Cf. the Epistle.