Endnotes
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On many railway lines, in order to avoid accidents, it is against the regulations to carry hay on the trains, and so live stock are without fodder on the journey. ↩︎
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The train destined especially for the transport of troops is called the troop train; when they are no troops it takes goods, and goes more rapidly than ordinary goods train. ↩︎
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A character in Gogol’s Dead Souls. —Translator ↩︎
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Sobol in Russian means “sable-marten.” —Translator ↩︎
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The Petchenyegs were a tribe of wild Mongolian nomads who made frequent inroads upon the Russians in the tenth and eleventh centuries. —Translator ↩︎