12. An intersection in Petersburg, still so called, where four streets come together to form five corners.
13. Before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, Russian estates were evaluated in terms of the number of "souls" (adult male serfs) living on them.
14. "Right as a lord" (French), referring to the right of the feudal lord, when one of his serfs married, to spend the first night with the bride.
15. Silvio, hero of "The Shot" (1830), a short story by the poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), devotes his life to the idea of revenge and finally triumphs over his adversary. A similar role is played by the character Incognito in Masquerade, a drama by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41).
16. In his enthusiasm, the narrator begins to speak in the words of the biblical Creator: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'" (Genesis 1:26).
17. In the 1840s, the French novelist George Sand (1804-76) was particularly admired in Russia for her social and humanitarian concerns.
18. The last lines of the Nekrasov poem quoted as epigraph to Part Two.
19. 'Furnished rooms" (French), which, while making a servant unnecessary, would expose the narrator to the presence of other lodgers.
Table of Contents
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND CONTENTS
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
INTRODUCTION
LEV SHESTOV
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGY
1821
1823-31
1825 1830
1831
1833-7
1834
1835
1836
1837
1839
1840
1841
1842
1843). 1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851 1852
1853-6 1854
1855 1856
1857
1859
1860
1861
1862.
1863
1864
1865
1865-9
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1871-2
1872
1875
1875-8
1876 1877
1878
1879 1879-80
1880
1881
I*
II
III
IV
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
PART TWO
I
II
III
IV
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
NOTES
18. "To domestic animals" (French).