普拉東諾夫在跳河前絕望的咆哮：我已經35歲，我已經35歲，一切都完了！一切都完了，薩沙，亞歷山大！一切都完了！35歲！我等于0！我渺小！0！35歲！萊蒙托夫，在墳墓里已躺了8年！拿破侖已經當上了將軍！而我活著你們這種該詛咒的生活中一事無成！薩沙，您害了我的一生！我是您的慈愛中的渺小人物！亞歷山大，我在哪兒，無用的廢物！我的力量、智慧、天才哪里去了，生命完了！你也來了，這個小火苗的庇護者！我多么憎恨你和你的金絲雀與羅宋湯！你也像我一樣，無地自容！每天看到你，聽到你的聲音，鄙視你和自己，知道別無出路！渺小之徒！我和你們一樣！都來了？我妨礙所有人？吵醒了所有人？好啦！沒有我你們可以休息啦！（I'm thirty five! I'm thirty five. Everything's ruined! Everything! Sasha! Alexandra! Everything's ruined! Thirty five!I'm a zero! A nobody!Zero! I'm thirty five!Lermontov had been already in the grave for eight years!Napoleon was a general!And I've done nothing in that damned life of yours!Sasha! You've ruined my life!It's because of you I'm a nobody!Alexandra! Where's my true self? I'm a good-for-nothing cripple!Where's my stength, my mind, my talent? A wasted life!Oh, you're here too, the keeper of a fire that isn't even smoldering?How l hate you, with your canaries and your borsches!But you have no choice, just like me!To see you everyday, to hear your voice,to despise you and myself, and to jnow there's no choice!A nobody! And I'm just like all of you here!So everybody's here,aren't you?I have disturbed everyone, haven't I?I woke up everybody?Never mind! You'll get your rest when I'm gone! ）然而河水只有齊腰深且水太寒麼？我們又憑什么輕視那個平凡的妻子薩申卡："Mishenka, my dear, my husband. You're alive. Therefore, I can live, too. I love you so much, Mishenka. I love you, Whatever you are. You're my whole world. I'm afaid of nothing, I can endure anything. Because no one in the world will ever love you sa I do. Mishenka, you're tired. You'll have a rest and we'll be happy again. And we'll live a long long life. And luck will come our way. We'll see a new bright pure world. And new, beautiful people who will understand us and forgive us. Only we must love. We must love, Mishenka, if we love, we'll live a long and happy life."她覺得只要有他，就是一個完美世界。當然，萊蒙托夫在我這個年紀已經死了，但是那又有什么關系呢。