Примечания

1

"K" stood for "Koba", Stalin's nickname among comrades


2

A two-room apartment in a lower middle-class neighborhood rented for about 40 kronen a month. Each krone had 100 heller


3

The last such ball ever held


4

Today the town of Artstetten, like thousands of others all over Europe, has a memorial to the local fallen of the Great War. But only the Artstetten does the list begin with a Crown Prince and his wife^ The Archduke Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg-Este and Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg.


5

The cultural society promoting Serb nationalism. Since neither Princip nor his accomplices gave away the Black hand during their interrogations, it is not mentioned in the Austrian note.

6

The other cornerstone of modernist fiction also saw birth on Habsburg soil: in March, 1914, in Trieste, James Joyce started to write Ulysses.

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