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1 ↑ N. P. Zagoskin, "Count L.N. Tolstoy and his Student Years." Historic Review, Jan. 1894, p. 87.

2 ↑ The governess; see concerning her further on in the following chapter.

3 ↑ First Reminiscences (from unpublished autobiographical sketches). Tolstoy's Complete Works, tenth Russian edition, vol. xiii, p. 515.

4 ↑ "Toinette, oh! she was charming!"

5 ↑ "16th August 1836.--Nicholas has today made me a strange proposal - that I should marry him, be a mother to his children, and never desert them. I refused the first proposal, I have promised to fulfill the other as long as I live."

6 ↑ From Tolstoy's rough Memories and uncorrected notes intrusted to me.

7 ↑ The leader of a widespread and bloody rebellion in the reign of Catherine II.

8 ↑ From Tolstoy's draft Reminiscences.

9 ↑ Sixth of January.

10 ↑ Instead of the singular "thou," as is usual in Russian between near relatives or friends.

11 ↑ The word for ant in Russian is "muravey," whence the similarity.

12 ↑ From Tolstoy's draft Reminiscences.

13 ↑ From Tolstoy's draft Reminiscences.

14 ↑ In Russia, in the days of serfdom, the enlisting of a serf into the ranks for the fifteen years was regarded as the severest punishment short of flogging him to death.

15 ↑ This estate of 900 acres which we received by inheritance was sold for the purpose of feeding the starving during the great famine of 1840.