Kieff
Kiev
Potiphar
a person known from the Book of Genesis
Herodias
mother of Salome, whom she used to murder John the Baptist
Cossacks
group of people living mostly on southern and European part of Russia, elite group of horsemen
deuce
devil
kibitka
carriage
Talmud
the core text of Rabbinistic Judaism
Little Russia
Ukraine
Psalter
volume containing the Book of Psalms