俄军人数：theseandotherfiguresaboutmenandmatérielinthischapterarefromgolovin'sarmyunlessotherwisenoted.

格雷评论俄国实力：greytosirf.bertie,may1,1914,bd,x,part2,no.541.

俄法参谋部的会谈及俄军的动员：messimy,179–81;kokovtsov,370–72;joffre,55–60;golovin,campaign,chapteriii,45–73.

“我们应该对准德国的心脏打击”：joffre,23.

格朗迈松在俄国备受欢迎：golovin,campaign,61.

1912—1913年日林斯基将军的承诺：agourtine,25.

伊恩·汉密尔顿的报告：hamilton,generalsirian,astaffofficer'sscrapbook,london,1907,ii,381.

“一个网球场也没有”：knox,xxvii.

“这是个愚不可及的政体”：witte,270,247.

尼古拉二世未受到执政培训：afewdaysbeforehis22ndbirthday,onapril28,1890,nicholaswroteinhisdiary,“todayifinisheddefinitelyandforevermyeducation.”qtd.radziwill,nicholasii,210.

科科夫佐夫向沙皇报告德国的备战情况：kokovtsov,456.

斯托雷平被秘密警察刺杀：wrangel,208.

“在这年头，人人都体弱多病”：witte,319.

“我希望活到能听见英国临终时的咽气声”：paléologue,intimatejournalofthedreyfuscase,newyork,1957,180.

“我最讨厌这个词！”：witte,190.

英国外交官：sirarthurnicolson,britishambassadortorussia,1906–10.nicolson,diplomatist,180.

“要他干工作固然很不容易”：sazonov,286.

“邪门歪道的新花样”：golovin,campaign,31,34.

苏霍姆利诺夫“使人一见便会产生不可信任的感觉”：paléologue,83;poincaré(iii,163)hadthesamereaction.

苏霍姆利诺夫的妻子、花销和朋党：agourtine,18–22;vladimirgurko,552–3;knox,222;sirbernardpares,ahistoryofrussia,newyork,1953,472–77.

苏霍姆利诺夫被定罪：agourtine,56–9.

“后果极为严重”：qtd.agourtine,59.

德皇给苏霍姆利诺夫的题献：afacsimileoftheautographofthekaiserisreproducedinludwig,508.

苏霍姆利诺夫应为俄国缺少炮弹承担的责任：knox,obituaryofsukhomlinovinslavonicreview,1926,vol.5,148;alsogolovin,army,12,32,43.

苏霍姆利诺夫厌恶尼古拉大公：danilov,150;golovin,campaign,35.

尼古拉大公被看作皇族宗室里唯一的“男子汉”：introductiontolettersoftsaritsa,xxi.

“我对他绝不信任”：letterstotsar,june16,1915,97.

大公深受福煦的影响：esher,tragedy,19.

科茨布伯爵的一番议论：danilov,43.

“黑山的夜莺”：paléologue,22–23.

俄国的两份作战计划：ironside,31–6.

向柏林进军：accordingtodanilov,deputychiefofstaff(130),thiswasthefundamentalideaandgoaloftherussianhighcommandthroughoutthe“firstperiod”ofthewar.

容克贵族胡乱射杀狐狸：ellenm.pain.myimpressionsofeastprussia,london,1915.

德皇射杀俄国麋鹿：topham,254.herchapterxiii,“rominten,”isbrilliantreportingoftheimperialhabits.

德国希望日本保持中立：hoffmann,waroflostopportunities,5.

霍夫曼的性格和习惯：k.f.nowak,introductiontohoffmann'swardiaries,i,10,18.

“你这个黄皮家伙”：recordedbytheamericancorrespondentfrederickpalmer,qtd.deweerd,71.

俄国上校出售本国作战计划：hoffmann,waroflostopportunities,4.

“投入全部兵力”：qtd.hoffmann,diaries,ii,241.