It [Old Slavonic] is the root of both branches of the living Russian language: of Great Russian, which is the literary and official Russian, as well as of Ukrainian, or Southern Russian. There are, moreover, no popular dialects in our country. The fourteen millions of Ukrainians, settled in the plains of south-west Russia, all speak exactly the same language.

This voice-over functions very differently from the extradiegetic narrator of the radio soap opera however, who tended to impose ideological coherence on the text, as well as serve as spokesman for the products being sold.

, Folio Society. 2006, p.17: other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber

This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.