These began in antiquity, gathered pace with medieval pilgrimages and flourished in the age of empires and, later, of aeroplanes.

常用语手册出现于古代，随着中世纪的朝圣之旅快速发展，并在帝国时代和后来的航空时代焕发蓬勃生机。

And in the early 19th century, Russian literature kind of starts with Pushkin, you know, and these classes are taught in universities as the age of empire that Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Pushkin are writers of the Age of Empire.

在 19 世纪初， 俄罗斯文学有点开始于普希金，你知道，这些课程在帝国时代的大学教授，托尔斯泰、陀思妥耶夫斯基和普希金都是帝国时代的作家。