shtcherbatof

Updated: August 22, 2026

The whole of the educated classes men of old family and parvenus alike were, with few exceptions, too much engrossed with place-hunting to attend to such sentimental wailing. * Prince Shtcherbatof. If the Russian Noblesse was thus in its new form but a very imperfect imitation of its French model, it was still more unlike the English aristocracy.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia