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Hindoo-Boodhist – the follower of Hindu-Buddhism, an In-dian variety of Buddhism, a phylosophicai and religious teach-ing of Buddha; Buddhism first appeared in the 4th century BC in northern India.

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pilgrims – persons who go to some sacred religious place

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breezes – a breeze is soft light wind

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Padua – a city in northern Italy, west of Venice, first men-tioned in 302 BC

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impromptu – smth. sudden, without preparation

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Dante – Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), an Italian poet and philosopher, the author of the ‘Divine Comedy’, one of the world’s greatest works

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the Hell of Dante – in the ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante makes a journey to Hell descending seven circles of the pit of Hell

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phlegm – a type of character when a person shows little emo-tions, acts and thinks slowly

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Esquire – a title written in the address of a letter after the family name

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Cumberland – a historic county in the northwest of England bordering Scotland

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guinea – money for which there are no coins or banknotes; it is still used in stating prices, charges and salaries.

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the Regent’s Park – one of the main parks in central London (197 hectares), developed in 1810–1820 by John Nash, a famous city architect, for the Royal family and aris-tocracy

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St. John’s Wood is located west of the Regent’s Park; Lord’s Cricket Ground was moved to St. John’s Wood in 1811.

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Baronet – a title of hereditary nobility, lower in rank than baron

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the Lake country – the Lake District, a national park famous for its beauty, located in the county of Cumbria; the largest lake is Windermere.

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backgammon – a game for two players played on a special board with draughts and dice

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eulogy – a speech or letter in which smb. is highly praised

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chiffoniers – low cupboards used as tables

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buhl – inlaid decoration of furniture

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marquetterie – inlaid work for decorating furniture

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Dresden – the capital of Saxony, a state in eastern Germany and the third largest city in eastern Germany

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Goths – a Germanic tribe originated in southern Scandina-via; after defeating the Vandals they settled in the Baltic Sea region.

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Charles the Fifth (1500–1558) – the Holy Roman Emperor (1519–1556); he inherited a Spanish and Habsburg empire ex-tending from Spain in the west to Austria in the east.

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Titian (1488–1576) – the greatest Italian painter of the Vene-tian school of the Renaissance period

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Raphael (1483–1520) – an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance period; he is famous for his Madonnas.

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Rembrandt (1606–1669) – a great Dutch painter and print-maker famous for the portraits of his contemporaries

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plebeian – n a representative of lower classes; adj low, vulgar

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chalet – a Swiss mountain wooden hut with sharply sloping roof

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muslin – thin fine cotton cloth

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Mozart – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music

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Syren – in Greek mythology, a woman with wings whose songs charmed the sailors and brought death to them