Notes
1. The First Net1 Zaporozhians – Zaporozhian Cossacks, literally meaning Cossacks ‘from beyond the rapids’ [on the Dnipro River].
2 A supreme Cossack leader.
3 Reference to Count Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1728–1803), a Ukrainian Cossack who served as the last hetman of Little Russia, as Ukraine was then known.
4 A damned craving for gold! (Latin)
5 A Cossack chieftain.
6 Moustache similar to that worn by the Russian tsar Peter the First.
7 I carry all my things with me. (Latin)
8 A beetroot-based soup with many other vegetables; variable, according to region.
9 A truncheon used by a commander-in-chief to signal orders.
10 Hryhoriy Kozytsky (1724–1775) – Ukrainian writer and statesman in the Russian Empire.
11 Mykola Motonis (?–1787) – Ukrainian writer, translator, philologist, a
