Note:
Translator Louise von Cossel is or might still be alive.
Therefore, this work is protected by copyright,
restricting your legal rights to reproduce it.
However, you are welcome to view it on screen, as you do now.
Read more about copyright.
Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has been proofread at least once.
(diff)
(history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång.
(skillnad)
(historik)
received in his home the élite of society. His
wife had died early, but his numerous
unmarried sisters lived with him, and superintended
his household.
Consequently, Elena Paulovna, as a young
girl, never came into contact with the practical
side of life. She got a better education than
most Russian girls at that time, played the piano
very well, sang admirably, spoke several foreign
languages, and had a pretty good knowledge of
French and German literature. Moreover, she
had artistic tastes, though none of her gifts were
so prominent as to call for great sacrifices on her
part, nor did they interfere with the tastes and
habits of her surroundings. On the contrary,
she cultivated her talents more for the pleasure
of others than for her own sake.
The guests in her father’s house had mostly
been elderly, serious people, who were fond of
the fine clever girl, and liked to chat with her;
they had looked upon her and treated her as a
child; and so did her husband, who was much
older than she.
Ivan Sergejevitsch was a widower when he
married Elena Paulovna, but he had no children
by his first wife. If Elena had married into
a German family, she might have become
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
