Hello there. Feel free to keep reading if you like although I'm afraid that I don't know any Russian. Would I happen to know you from somewhere as you seem to have found my alter ego LJ as well?

Yes, the cello case does double as a sort of sled/tobaggan if you want to go down a snowy hillside fast.

I always thought that the pinky thing was mostly just some sort of pretentious upper-class English thing, but the aristocracy bit does make sense.