...Their wives are not less educated and well-mannered; many of them are fluent in modern European languages, to say nothing of the other regular social activities adopted in all houses; they are as well-known to them as their fingers on the hands" ("Zamoskvorechye, ili Vot kak zhivyot da pozhivaet russkoe kupechestvo nyneshnego mudrenogo promyshlennogo XIX veka. Zametki moskvicha v nablyudatel'nom rode" - "Zamoskvorechye, or that's how Russian Merchants class lives in this odd industrial XIX century. Notes of a Muscovite in the Reviewing way").