I certainly do speak Russian. You see, it was the fashionable language par excellence, much more than French, among the nobles of Zembla at least. (Vladimir Nabokov)

I certainly do speak Russian. You see, it was the fashionable language par excellence, much more than French, among the nobles of Zembla at least.

Vladimir Nabokov

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