With keen nostalgic tenderness recalling the rooms in the ancestral manor, where as boys he and his brother used to have lessons with a tutor or a governess (p. 107).
No. 91
Night restaurants had Gypsy
No. 92
A type of rustic comfortable sleigh which looked as if it consisted of a rug on runners (p. 109).
No. 93
Lyovin's manor house was heated by means of wood-burning Dutch stoves, a stove per room, and there were double windows with wads of cotton wool between the panes (p.112).
No. 94
John Tyndall (1820-1893), author of
No. 95
The three Russian station bells had already become in the seventies a national institution. The first bell, a quarter of an hour before departure, introduced the idea of a journey to the would-be passenger's mind ; the second, ten minutes later, suggested the project might be realized; immediately after the third, the train whistled and glided away (p. 118).
No. 96
Roughly speaking, two notions of night-traveling comfort were dividing the world in the last third of the century: the Pullman system in America, which favored curtained sections and which rushed sleeping passengers feet foremost to their 145
destination; and the Mann system in Europe, which had them speed sidewise in compartments; but in 1872, a first-class car (euphemistically called sleeping-car by Tolstoy) of the night express between Moscow and Petersburg was a very primitive affair still wavering between a vague Pullman tendency and Colonel Mann's 'boudoir' scheme. It had a lateral corridor, it had water closets, it had stoves burning wood; but it also had open- end platforms which Tolstoy calls 'porches'
No. 97
This was, in 1872, a very primitive gadget, with a candle
inside, a reflector, and a metallic handle that could be fixed
to the arm of a railway fauteuil at the reader's elbow (p.
118).
No. 98
Here is a further set of impressions going back to the
muffled-up guard who got crushed ('someone being torn
part') and going forward to Anna's suicide (the blinding
wall, the 'sinking'). The wretched stove-heater seems to
somnolent Anna to be gnawing at something in the wall,
and this will be twisted into the groping and crushing
motion of the disgusting dwarf in her later nightmare (p.
118).
No. 99
The station is Bologoe, midway between Moscow and St.
Petersburg. In the 1870s this was a twenty-minute stop in
the small hours for some bleak refreshments (see also note Nabokov's sketch of the sleeping car in which Anna rode from 72) (p. 120).
Moscow to St. Petersburg.
No. 100
In 1850, there appeared a hard hat with a low crown designed by William Bowler, an English hatter, and this was the original model of the bowler, or derby—its American name stemming from the fact that the Earl of Derby wore a gray bowler with a black band to the English races. It was generally adopted in the seventies.
146
Karenin's ears should be noted as the third item in the series of the 'wrong things' which underscore Anna's mood (p. 123).
No. 101
Promoter of a spiritual and political union of all Slavs (Serbs, Bulgarians, etc.), with Russia at its head (p.128).
No. 102
The time is around 9 p.m. (see end of paragraph). For some reason Seryozha has been put to bed earlier than usual (see above where 'around ten' is mentioned as his bedtime—a singularly late one for a child of eight) (p.131).
No. 103
Possibly a disguised allusion on Tolstoy's part to the French writer Count Mathias Philippe Auguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam (1840-1889). Tolstoy invented the title, 'The Poesie of Hades,' (p. 132).
No. 104
In the course of the novel, Tolstoy refers several times to Vronski's splendid regular teeth,
No. 105
At the end of chapter 22 of part six, Dolly Oblonski watches
Vronski, Anna, and two male guests play tennis. This is July
1875 and the tennis they are playing on the Vronski
country estate is the modern game, which a Major
