Often Natasha and Nikolay knew of uneasy, private consultations between their parents, and heard talk of selling the sumptuous ancestral house of the Rostovs and the estate near Moscow.

• 娜塔莎和尼古拉常常看见双亲激动不安地私下商议，常常听见有关出售罗斯托夫祖遗的豪华住宅和莫斯科近郊的地产的传言。