Молодой Щербацкий, поступив во флот, утонул в Балтийском море, и сношения Левина с Щербацкими, несмотря на дружбу его с Облонским, стали более редки.
Young Shtcherbatsky went into the navy, was drowned in the Baltic, and Levin's relations with the Shtcherbatskys, in spite of his friendship with Oblonsky, became less intimate.