Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection

long strips of linen are worn by the peasants instead of stockings

coffee-pots are often used for holding holy water in Russia

Sadko, the hero of a legend

member of an artel, an association of workmen, in which the members share profits and liabilities

in Russia coupons cut off interest-bearing papers are often used as money

There are small watchmen’s cottages at distances of about one mile from each other along the Russian railways, and the watchmen or their wives have to meet every train.

the rouble is worth a little over two shillings, and contains 100 copecks

cheap restaurant

literally, jostling market, where second-hand clothes and all sorts of cheap goods are sold

literally, “People’s Freedom,” a revolutionary movement

about two and three-quarter acres

The greatest thief in the village

a pood is 36 English pounds

kvas is a kind of sour, non-intoxicant beer made of rye

those baptized in the Russo-Greek Church always wear a cross round their necks

many advanced women wear their hair short, like men

The Emperor Alexander II was killed on the first of March, old style.

the Decembrists were a group who attempted, but failed, to put an end to absolutism in Russia at the time of the accession of Nicholas the First

the headquarters of the fire brigade and the police stations are generally together in Moscow

In Moscow, in the beginning of the eighth decade of this century, five convicts died of sunstroke in one day on their way from the Boutyrki prison to the Nijni railway station.

leaders of rebellions in Russia: Stonka Razin in the 17th and Pougatcheff in the 18th century

A fact described by Lineff in his “Transportation”.

The long boots worn in Russia have concertina-like sides, and when held to the chimney of the somovar can be used instead of bellows to make the charcoal inside burn up.

a kind of cigarette that the peasants smoke, made of a bit of paper and bent at one end into a hook