is not the general Russian custom, houses being provided also with a stolovaya, or dining-room.]
5 [Kaftan, a long coat of various cuts, including military and naval frockcoat, and the long gown worn by coachmen.]
6 [Afanasyi Shenshin, the poet, who adopted his mother’s name, Fet, for a time, owing to official difficulties about his birth-certificate. An intimate friend of Tolstoy’s.]
7 [“Sovremennik,” or “Contemporary Review,” edited by the poet Mekrasof, was the rallying-place for the “men of the forties,” the new school of realists. Ostrovsky is the dramatist; Gontcharof the novelist, author of “Oblomof”; Grigorovitch wrote tales about peasant life, and was the discoverer of Tchekhof’s talent as a serious writer.]
8 [The balks are the banks dividing the fields of different owners or crops. Hedges are not used for this purpose in Russia.]
9 [Pazanki, tracks of a hare, name given to the last joint of the hind legs.]
10 [A Moscow monthly, founded by Katkof, who somehow managed to edit both this and the daily “Moskovskiya Vyedomosti,” on which “Uncle Kostya” worked at the same time.]
11 [Dmitry. My father’s brother Dmitry died in 1856; Nikolai died September 20, 1860.]
12 [That is to say, his eyes went always on the straightest road to attain satisfaction for himself.]
13 [Khamsvniki, a street in Moscow.]
14 [Maria Mikhailovna, his wife.]
15 [Tolstoy’s sister. She became a nun after her husband’s death and the marriage of her three daughters.]
16 [Tolstoy was in the artillery, and commanded a battery in the Crimea.]
17 [Fet, at whose house the quarrel took place, tells all about it in his memoirs. Tolstoy dogmatized about lady-like charity, apropos of Turgenieff’s daughter. Turgenieff, in a fit of nerves, threatened to box his ears. Tolstoy challenged him to a duel, and Turgenieff apologized.]
18 [Turgenieff was ten years older than Tolstoy.]
19 [I had written to my father that my fiancee’s mother would not let me marry for two years.]
20 [My father took Griboyehof’s PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA as a type. The allusion here is to the last words of Griboyehof’s famous comedy, “The Misfortune of Cleverness,” “What will PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA say?”]
21 [Be loved by them.]
22 [His wife’s.]
23 [A novelist, died 1895.]
24 [One of the authors of “Junker Schmidt.”]
25 [The curious may be disposed to trace to some such “corrections beforehand” the remarkable discrepancy of style and matter which distinguishes some of Tolstoy’s later works, published after his death by Mr. Tchertkof and his literary executors.]
26 [Tolstoy’s private secretary, arrested and banished in 1908.]
27 [Five weeks after Leskof’s death.]
28 [The Countess Tolstoy.]

The End