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Petite vérole noire: haemorrhagic smallpox, the deadliest form of the disease. ↩
The «I!» in the transcription probably renders a double exclamation mark («!!»); it is not an English word. ↩
Pré Catelan: a restaurant and gardens in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. ↩
Count Paskevitch d'Erivan: a member of the family of Field Marshal Ivan Paskevitch (1782–1856), Prince of Warsaw and Count of Erivan, one of the most celebrated Russian commanders of the 19th century. ↩
Albedinsky's wife was Princess Alexandra Sergeyevna Dolgorukova (born 1834), mistress of Tsar Alexander II until 1862; the marriage is said to have been arranged by the Tsar (en.wikipedia «Alexandra Albedinskaya»; «Pyotr Albedinsky»). Not to be confused with Princess Catherine Dolgorukova (1847–1922), his later mistress and from 1880 his morganatic wife. ↩