Count Alexander Ilich Rostov wrote a poem that the Commissary at or whatever they're called, approved of. He's still under house arrest in this crappy little room upstairs. The life of a gentleman is to be educated to be sort of cultivated as a person rather than just doing an occupation. It's all about cultivating an educated and very well-mannered approach. They didn't do very much apart from run their estate. And look after all the servants or the serfs in the Russian case.

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