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.
Сам Левин не помнил своей матери, и единственная сестра его была старше его, так что в доме Щербацких он в первый раз увидал ту самую среду старого дворянского, образованного и честного семейства, которой он был лишен смертью отца и матери.