[64] The eighth from the top in the Table of Ranks won by service to the state, which Peter the Great instituted.  A sufficiently high grade in that table confers hereditary nobility; the lower grades carry only personal nobility.—­TRANSLATOR.

[65] The long Tatar coat, with large sleeves, and flaring, bias skirts.—–­TRANSLATOR.

[66] See note on page 24.—­TRANSLATOR.

[67] Diminutives of Yakoff, implying great affection.—­TRANSLATOR.

[68] Mikhail Stasiulevitch.—­TRANSLATOR.

[69] The favourite decoration in rustic architecture.—­TRANSLATOR.

[70] These lines do not rhyme in the original.—­TRANSLATOR.

[71] “The white-handed man” would be the literal translation.—­TRANSLATOR.

[72] The pretty name for what we call mullein.—­TRANSLATOR.

[73] That is, made without meat.—­TRANSLATOR.

[74] The ideal bearing in church is described as standing “like a candle”; that is, very straight and motionless.—­TRANSLATOR.

[75] Strips of grass left as boundaries between the tilled fields allotted to different peasants.—­TRANSLATOR.

[76] The affectionate diminutive.—­TRANSLATOR.