Endnotes + 

In Russian, silen. ↩ + 

A proverbial expression in Russia. ↩ + 

Grushenka. ↩ + 

I.e. setter dog. ↩ + 

Probably the public event was the Decabrist plot against the Tsar, of December 1825, in which the most distinguished men in Russia were concerned. —⁠Translator’s note ↩ + 

When a monk’s body is carried out from the cell to the church and from the church to the graveyard, the canticle “What earthly joy⁠ ⁠…” is sung. If the deceased was a priest as well as a monk the canticle “Our Helper and Defender” is sung instead. ↩ + 

I.e. a chime of bells. ↩ + 

Literally: “Did you get off with a long nose made at you?”⁠—a proverbial expression in Russia for failure. ↩ + 

Gogol is meant. ↩ + 