А Сонечка, кое-как выучив уроки, каждодневно и ежеминутно увиливала от необходимости жить в патетических и крикливых тридцатых годах и пасла свою душу на просторах великой русской литературы, то опускаясь в тревожные бездны подозрительного Достоевского, то выныривая в тенистые аллеи Тургенева и провинциальные усадебки, согретые беспринципной и щедрой любовью почему-то второсортного Лескова. (Людмила УЛИЦКАЯ, "СОНЕЧКА") Речь идет о русской литературе. Писатель Лесков (менее читаемый чем Тургенев и поэтому "второсортный") воспевал в своих произведениях образ провинциальной усадьбы.

provincial estates(little) are warmed by unprincipled and generous love, why then second-class ..... it is difficult to read even for some russian ) Now nobody doesn´t speak so difficult.

I wouldn't try to understand the meaning of that phrase, because: 1) it is not finished and 2) it is a literary styled description of nature (or something) which probably contains a lot of figurative turns of speech. We have some classical writers which were fond of such things. Impossible to read. I would better pay attention to spelling, you have a couple of orthographic mistakes there. прови(!)нциальные Check with "провИнция" Почему-(!)то The particle "то" is always connected to words with "-" почему-то как-то где-то Don't mix it up with a demonstrative pronoun: - Я проверил то, что ты мне вчера сказал. - Помнишь то дерево около дома?

"...little provincial manors, warmed by opportunistic and generous love of (allegedly) second-rate Leskov..." The author describes a young girl who would slip from the exclamatory culture of the 1930 (the time when she lived) to the imaginary world of the Russian classical literature. The line you quoted mentions the writer Leskov who was unduly looked at as some second-rate author then.

Hi! Can u finish the phrase?