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Author : Leo Tolstoy

Translator : Louise Maude

Translator : Aylmer Maude

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[1] It is customary to place a dying person under the icón. One or
more icóns hang in the hut of each Orthodox peasant.

[2] Peasant weddings are usually in autumn. They are forbidden
in Lent, and soon after Easter the peasants become too busy to
marry till harvest is over.

[3] A formal request for forgiveness is customary among Russians,
but it is often no mere formality. Nikíta's first reply is evasive;
his second reply, “God will forgive you,” is the correct one sanctioned
by custom.

[4] Loud public wailing of this kind is customary, and considered
indispensable, among the peasants.

[5] Where not otherwise mentioned in the stage directions, it is
always the winter half of the hut that is referred to as “the hut.”
The summer half is not heated, and not used in winter under ordinary
circumstances.

[6] The Foundlings' Hospital in Moscow, where 80 to 90 per cent.
of the children die.

[7] Naan calls Mítritch “daddy” merely as a term of endearment.

[8] Probably Kurds.

[9] This refers to the songs customary at the wedding of Russian
peasants, praising the bride and bridegroom.

[10] It is etiquette for a bride to bewail the approaching loss of her
maidenhood.



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     Notes -- Publication : November 30, 1885

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