The great rambling house, with its unstained plank floors, was furnished with the simplest rough sofas and chairs and tables made of their own birch-trees by the labor of their serf carpenters.

• 房子很宽敞，地板没有油漆，家具也很简单：几只硬沙发，几张桌椅，这些都是家里的木匠用自己家里的桦木做的。