All translations are our own, unless otherwise acknowledged. We transliterate Russian names and words according to a modified US Library of Congress standard; where more familiar versions of names are in common use (e.g. Dostoevsky), we adopt that form. Where we cite sources, we copy names as they appear in that source.
Where ellipses (…) appear in quotations, they are our insertions, unless noted as being in the original text.
Where emphases are added to quotations, this is noted.