- ^ Early in the story, Peter and Pavel are deeply in debt to Wick Cutter, who is known in Black Hawk for lending money. Ántonia and Jim accompany Ántonia's father to visit Pavel after he is fatally injured during the construction of a barn. Pavel shares his deathbed confession with them. After Pavel dies, Peter leaves Black Hawk.
- ^ Ántonia's father befriended the two Russians, Pavel and Peter.
- ^ In his 2009 article in the Great Plains Quarterly, Robin Chen wrote that the names, Peter and Pavel, are those of "stock characters in Russian folktales" whom Ántonia's father befriended two Russians, Pavel and Peter.
- ^ Cohen also noted Cather's depiction of wolves is not based on verifiable sources on the behaviour of real wolves. People often overestimate the size of packs of wolves and individual wolves.
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