Когда же Пелагея умерла, сироту Ваньку спровадили в людскую кухню к деду, а из кухни в Москву к сапожнику Аляхину…
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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…
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Больше всех хлопотала барышня Ольга Игнатьевна, любимица Ваньки. The one who bustled about most of all was the young mistress Olga Ignatyevna, Vanka's favourite.
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.
The words in this sentence
- когда́
- when
- же
- emphatic/contrastive particle: but, however, indeed
- Пелаге́я
- Pelageya (name, nom sg)
- умерла́
- she died (past f of умереть) — умереть
- сироту́
- orphan (acc sg) — сирота
- Ва́ньку
- Vanka (acc sg) (name) — ванька
- спрова́дили
- they packed off, got rid of (past pl, colloq.) — спровадить
- в
- in, into
- людску́ю
- servants' hall, quarters (acc f sg) — людская
- ку́хню
- kitchen (acc sg of кухня) — кухня
- к
- to, toward (+ dat)
- де́ду
- to grandfather (dat sg) — дед
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- из
- from, out of (+ gen)
- ку́хни
- kitchen (gen sg); kitchens (nom pl) — кухня
- Москву́
- Moscow (name, acc sg) — москва
- сапо́жнику
- shoemaker, cobbler (dat sg) — сапожник
- Аля́хину
- to Alyakhin, the shoemaker (dat) (name) — аляхин
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