Moskva School No. 7 was clean and well organized. The students were all boys, and all intelligent, not like the mindless hoodlums and delinquents that filled the Orphanage. Here there were some who were Illya's equal intellectually and a few, but not many who were superior.
He made acquaintances, though none he dared called friend. Grigory, Anton and Leonid were in his classes and sometimes he was included in their activities, mainly because they needed a fourth person.
The food was plentiful here, allowing young Illya Kuryakin to go about the business of learning without suffering the pangs of hunger