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 no recordaba a su madre; tenía sólo una hermana, y ésta mayor que él. Así, pues, en casa de los Scherbazky se encontró por primera vez en aquel ambiente de hogar aristocrático a intelectual del que él no había podido gozar nunca por la muerte de sus padres.