1.  He had not then returned to Russia.

2.  Before the vodka prohibition. How they get on now it would be difficult to say.

3.  Gorky went to America to raise money to help the Revolutionary Party in Russia, but was hounded out of the country as an immoral man. The newspapers started a campaign against his private life, and despite American sympathy for the cause of “liberty” he was forced to leave the country. No hotel would take him in.

4.  Since the War vodka has of course disappeared.

5.  From Gambrinus, Kuprin’s Works, vol. iv.

6.  V. V. Rozanof, Wall-Painting.

7.  “The Ikon not made by Hands,” a Russian mystical story in A Vagabond in the Caucasus.

8.  Cited by the priest Florensky, who copied down the song as he heard it (The Pillar and Foundation of Truth).

9.  Podvig is a Russian word for holy exploits and victories, especially for those consisting in a denial of the world. See Chapter on podvigs, page 111.

10.  Podvizhnitchestvo = the life of going on doing podvigs, the continuance of denial of the world.

11.  The Frontispiece of this book.

12.  The frontispiece of this book.

13.  War and Christianity, by Vladimir Solovyof, now translated into English—Constable’s Russian Library.