In all Petersburg there was not a human being to whom he could express what he was feeling, who would feel for him, not as a high official, not as a member of society, but simply as a suffering man; indeed he had not such a one in the whole world.

Alexey Alexandrovitch grew up an orphan.

There were two brothers.

They did not remember their father, and their mother died when Alexey Alexandrovitch was ten years old.

The property was a small one.