Five Great Short Stories (13 page)

[
Verstá,
slightly over a kilometer; about
of a mile.]

[Light carriage.]

[Local elective assembly.]

[A long, close-fitting pleated coat.]

[See page 1.]

[Peasant.]

[Words in Church Slavonic, the liturgical language.]

[“Little father.”
Batiushki
, which occurs later, is the plural.]

[Jocular names implying that inn personnel are cads and toadies.]

[Village head.]

[Cabbage soup.]

[Meat dumplings.]

[See page 31.]

[Village community or meeting.]

[Covered traveling wagon.]

[That is, the polite form of “you,”
vy
rather than
ty
.]

[Doctor's assistant.]

[House porter, concierge.]

[See page 60.]

[See page 31.]

[See page 31.]

[Thick soup, or steamed cabbage, with meat or fish.]