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- It was not without reason that Guryev traveled abroad: he improved himself there in the gastronomic part. He had a really ingenious genius of this kind, and it seems there are pates, there are cutlets that bear his name. He gave dinners to his noble new relatives, and only to them; his house began to be revered as one of the best, and he himself was among the first patricians of Petropolis. (en)
- Guryev was never good or smart; only at that time was he young, fresh, hefty, white and blush, at the same time extremely searching and agreeable; he wanted to get into people at all costs, and blind happiness heard his prayers. He accidentally met a young, effeminate millionaire, Count Pavel Martynovich Skavronsky, the grandson of Catherine I's brother, who was going abroad. Guryev knew how to please him, even to master him, and for more than three years traveled with him in Europe. (en)
- He received moreover from Skavronsky three thousand souls as a sign of memory and true friendship. Youth, foreign education, court rank, wealth, all this allowed him to think about a profitable party, only the news of his name still prevented him from obtaining the right to citizenship in the aristocratic world; he soon acquired them, marrying Countess Praskovya Nikolaevna Saltykova, a thirty–year–old girl, ugly and evil, whom no one wanted to marry, despite her three thousand souls. (en)
- ... all the habits of the greatest aristocrat, although his father, almost from a taxable state, was the steward of one rich, but not a noble and provincial landowner; but he himself married Countess Saltykova, an elderly girl, from whose hand, despite her great fortune, everyone ran for a long time. (en)
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