Poznámky
Chevalier-garde: member of the Russian Imperial Chevalier Guards regiment, one of the most elite cavalry units. ↩
Il m'aime, un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, pas du tout: the French love-divination game played by plucking petals, equivalent to "she loves me, she loves me not." ↩
Marie uses Stendhal's term from De l'Amour (1822): crystallisation is the process by which the imagination coats a beloved with imagined perfections, like salt crystals forming on a branch in Salzburg's mines. ↩