Lives and Deaths by Leo Tolstoy

Author:Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoy and Boris Dralyuk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782275428
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2019-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Introduced by Peter the Great in 1722—and abolished by the Bolsheviks in 1917—the Table of Ranks was an official list of fourteen ranks and positions of the civil, military, and court systems of imperial Russia. The tenth rank of the civil service was that of collegiate secretary.

2 E.F. Charmeur was one of the finest tailors in St Petersburg in the late imperial period.

3 Donon’s was an exclusive restaurant in St Petersburg at the time.

4 An official for special assignments was a position for imperial civil servants of the sixth to the ninth ranks. (See note 1.)

5 Old Believers are Eastern Orthodox Christians who refuse to accept the reforms to the rituals and practices of the Church implemented by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666. Although they were heavily persecuted in both the imperial and Soviet periods, communities of Old Believers survive to this day.

6 Named after Maria Feodorovna, the second wife of Emperor Paul I, the Institutions of Empress Maria was a government office in imperial Russia that managed hospitals, orphanages, poorhouses, homes for the disabled and educational facilities for women and children. It was abolished in 1917.

7 A line from the poem “Song” (1796) by Yury Neledinsky-Meletsky (1751–1828).

8 Johann Gottfried Karl Christian Kiesewetter (1766– 1819) played an important role in popularizing the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and was the author of an influential textbook of logic, Grundriß einer reinen allgemeinen Logik, nach Kantischen Grundsätzen, which first appeared in 1791 and went through several editions.

9 A men’s hairstyle named after the French operatic tenor Victor Capoul (1839–1924), in which the hair is parted down the middle with two curls on either side of the forehead.

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