Poznámky
Poltava: the principal city of the Poltava region in central Ukraine, some 300 kilometres east of Kyiv. The Bashkirtseff family estate at Gavronzi was in this province. ↩
The reference to Jews here reflects the context of the 1881 pogroms in which Jewish communities throughout southern Ukraine were attacked. Marie's tone is that of a witness reporting the social landscape — she had commented on the same violence in the previous entry with more political analysis. ↩