Endnotes + 

From lebyed, a swan. ↩ + 

In the poorer quarters of Russian towns a single room is often let out to several families, each of which occupies a “corner.” ↩ + 

The reference is to a poem of Derzhavin’s. ↩ + 

The reference is to the legend current in the sect of Flagellants. —⁠Translator’s note ↩ + 

February 19, 1861, the day of the Emancipation of the Serfs, is meant. —⁠Translator’s note ↩ + 