Больше всех хлопотала барышня Ольга Игнатьевна, любимица Ваньки.
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The one who bustled about most of all was the young mistress Olga Ignatyevna, Vanka's favourite.
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Срубленную елку дед тащил в господский дом, а там принимались убирать ее… Grandfather would drag the felled fir to the master's house, and there they would set about decorating it…
Когда еще была жива Ванькина мать Пелагея и служила у господ в горничных, Ольга Игнатьевна кормила Ваньку леденцами и от нечего делать выучила его читать, писать, считать до ста и даже танцевать кадриль. While Vanka's mother Pelageya was still alive and served the gentlefolk as a housemaid, Olga Ignatyevna used to feed Vanka sweets and, having nothing better to do, taught him to read, to write, to count up to a hundred, and even to dance the quadrille.
Когда же Пелагея умерла, сироту Ваньку спровадили в людскую кухню к деду, а из кухни в Москву к сапожнику Аляхину… But when Pelageya died, the orphan Vanka was packed off to the servants' kitchen to his grandfather, and from the kitchen to Moscow, to the shoemaker Alyakhin…
The words in this sentence
- бо́льше
- more, bigger
- всех
- all (gen/acc/prep pl) — весь
- хлопота́ла
- she bustled about (past f) — хлопотать
- ба́рышня
- young lady, miss (nom sg)
- О́льга
- Olga (name, nom sg)
- Игна́тьевна
- Ignatyevna (name, patronymic)
- люби́мица
- favourite, pet (f)
- ва́ньки
- cheap cabmen (pl of ванька, archaic) — ванька
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