...We thought we knew the English language, having even translated a whole book (the Webbs') from English into Russian, when we were in Siberia. I learnt English in prison from a self-instructor, but had never heard a single live English word spoken. When we started translating Webb at Shushenskoye, Vladimir Ilyich was appalled at my pronunciation. "My sister used to have an English teacher," he said, "but it didn't sound like that."...
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Memories of Lenin (1930)