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In order to be cultured and not to stand below the level of your surroundings it is not enough to have read "The Pickwick Papers" and learnt a monologue from "Faust." ... What is needed is constant work, day and night, constant reading, study, will.... Every hour is precious for it.... Come to us, smash the vodka bottle, lie down and read.... Turgenev, if you like, whom you have not read.
All I know is that he returned home and drank a whole bottle of champagne to himself, in full satisfaction not that he cared for the wine, for his peasant taste favoured the fiery vodka. On entering Peterhof we were met by the valet Tchernoff, who greeted Rasputin very warmly with some meaning words, and said: "His Majesty is in his private cabinet expecting you. Come."
I know nothing about your proofs," answered Psyekoff, almost inaudibly. "It's no use! Well, let me relate to you how the matter took place. On Saturday evening you were sitting in Klausoff's sleeping room, and drinking vodka and beer with him." At one o'clock, Marcus Ivanovitch announced his intention of going to bed. He always went to bed at one o'clock.
In the same way a tradesman in our town who was celebrating his name-day with a party of friends, getting angry at being refused more vodka, smashed up his own crockery and furniture and tore his own and his wife’s clothes, and finally broke his windows, all for the sake of effect. Next day, of course, when he was sober, he regretted the broken cups and saucers.
Pierre unfolded his cold table napkin and, resolving to break the silence, looked at Natasha and at Princess Mary. They had evidently both formed the same resolution; the eyes of both shone with satisfaction and a confession that besides sorrow life also has joy. "Do you take vodka, Count?" asked Princess Mary, and those words suddenly banished the shadows of the past.
He made the engineer sing a solo, made the bass singers drink a mixture of wine, vodka, and oil. At six o'clock they handed him the bill. "Nine hundred and twenty-five roubles, forty kopecks," said Almer, and shrugged his shoulders. "What's it for? No, wait, we must go into it!" "Stop!" muttered Frolov, pulling out his pocket-book. "Well! . . . let them rob me.
Old Osip, speaking slowly, told them how they used to live before the emancipation; how in those very parts, where life was now so poor and so dreary, they used to hunt with harriers, greyhounds, retrievers, and when they went out as beaters the peasants were given vodka; how whole waggonloads of game used to be sent to Moscow for the young masters; how the bad were beaten with rods or sent away to the Tver estate, while the good were rewarded.
The driver had to pull up his horses as we struck the town, and dad must have got a whiff of the driver's vodka, because he come to, and we got to the hotel all right, and I thought dad would simply die in his tracks, but the ride and the excitement did him good, and he wanted to buy a gun and go out wolf hunting the next day, but our tickets were bought and we shall get out of this terrible country to-morrow.
In Russia any housewife may brew beer; yet our people will not drink it they are more used to spirits. Also, Russian folk like to attain their object in drinking AT ONCE; and a shkalik of vodka will do more to sap wit than five kruzhki of beer. Once our people liked uniform simplicity; but now they are become like a man who was born blind, and has suddenly acquired sight. A change indeed!
As Nikita entered the house she was offering her guest a small tumbler of thick glass which she had just filled with vodka. 'Don't refuse, Vasili Andreevich, you mustn't! Wish us a merry feast. Drink it, dear! she said. The sight and smell of vodka, especially now when he was chilled through and tired out, much disturbed Nikita's mind.
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