Nabok - Tartar Prince mentioned in
Ada: for her sixteenth birthday Greg Erminin gives Ada "a little camel of yellow ivory carved in Kiev, five centuries ago,
in the days of Timur and Nabok" (1.39)
Obst - Germ., fruit; cf. Lucette's words: 'I always teeter on the tender border between sunburn and suntan -
or between lobster and Obst as writes Herb, my beloved painter'
(3.5)
Sobak - Fima Sobak, a character in Ilf and
Petrov's "The 12 chairs"
kvas - Russian non-alcoholic beverage
Moskva - Russian name of Moscow
Alexey Sklyarenko