Четыре года тому назад, встретившись в партере московского театра с товарищем-немцем, Берг указал ему на Веру Ростову и по-немецки сказал: "Das soll mein Weib werden",501 и с той минуты решил жениться на ней.
Four years before, meeting a German comrade in the stalls of a Moscow theater, Berg had pointed out Véra Rostóva to him and had said in German, "das soll mein Weib werden," and from that moment had made up his mind to marry her.