"[А] вот только русским ничем не наделят, разве из патриотизма выстроят для себя на даче избу в русском вкусе. Вот как…"

"there is no word so perk and quick, which bursts from the heart with such spontaneity, which seethes and bubbles with…"

"The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout no…"

"And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to…"

"Rus! Rus! I see you, from my lovely enchanted remoteness I see you: a country of dinginess, and bleakness and dispers…"

"Why are you being so stingy?", Sobakevich demanded. "It's cheap at the price. A rogue would cheat you, sell you some …"

"As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long befo…"

"[Women's] boarding schools, as we know, hold the three principal subjects which constitute the basis of human virtue …"

"There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something."

"Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been bor…"