Ya, razumeetsya, byl strog, no spravedliv. Nekotoroe vremya sluchilos’ nam stoyat’ v gorodke. Mne otveli v forshtadte kvartiru u odnoy otstavnoy podporuchitsy i k tomu zhe vdovy. Odnim slovom, chem dal’she vremya idet, tem bol’she dumaetsya. Ne to chtob, a tak inogda voobrazish’, i stanet nekhorosho. Glavnoe, chto tut, kak? A, nakonets rassudil? Vo-pervykh, zhenshchina, tak skazat’, sushchestvo chelovecheskoe, chto nazyvayut v nashe vremya, gumannoe, zhila, dolgo zhila, nakonets zazhilas’. Kogda-to imela detey, muzha, semeystvo, rodnykh, vsyo eto krugom nee, tak skazat’ kipelo, vse eti, tak skazat’, ulybki, i vdrug – polny pas, vsyo v trubu vyletelo, ostalas’ odna, kak … mukha kakaya-nibud’, nosyashchaya na sebe ot veka proklyatie. Prezhde vsego roman prikliuchenii zanimatel’nost’iu svoikh fabul blestiashche razreshil osnovnuiu zadachu tvorcheskoi poetiki. On daval emu neprevzoidennye vo vsei klassicheskoi obrazy. zakhvatyvaiushchego povestvovatel’nogo interesa i etim otvechal ego glavnoi potrebnosti v oblasti romanicheskoi tekhniki. bo ves’ vopros v tom i sostoit chto schitat’ za pravdu. Dlia togo i napisan roman.
I will give you a huge hint: The language is typically written in a completely different script and the Latin alphabet exists but is only rarely used for this language.
