Sviyazhsky was one of those people – they invariably amazed Levin – whose judgment was very logical though never original and was kept quite apart from their conduct, while their manner of life was very definite and stable, its tendency being quite independent of their judgment, and even clashing with it. Sviyazhsky was an extreme Liberal.
Sviajsky era muy liberal. Despreciaba a la nobleza y consideraba que la mayoría de los nobles eran, in petto, partidarios de la servidumbre y que sólo por cobardía no lo declaraban.