He could not remember his mother, and his sister was much his senior, so that in the Shcherbatskys' house he saw for the first time the family life of a well-educated and honourable family of the old aristocracy – a life such as he had been deprived of by the death of his own father and mother.
Levin non ricordava sua madre, e l’unica sua sorella era più grande di lui, di modo che per la prima volta in casa Šcerbackij aveva conosciuto quell’ambiente di vecchia famiglia nobile, colta e onesta, del quale era stato privato per la morte della madre e del padre.