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The Duel

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2017
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Sliva is the Russian for plum.

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Arshin = 2·33 feet.

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Pet name for Alexandra.

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A light jacket worn in the hot weather.

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The name given to Ivan the Terrible’s lifeguards and executioners.

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Chinóvnik, Russian word for official.

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Ivan Milostivni, one of the innumerable saints of the Greek Church.

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The allusion is to the double eagle in the arms of Russia.

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Vobla is a kind of fish of the size of Prussian carp, and is caught in the Volga.

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Au revoir.

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Untranslatable pun on the two last syllables of svidánia; Dania means Denmark, Schvezia, Sweden.

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