Answer:
railway cottages" are small workers' houses, originally built by railway companies for their employees (most likely in Victorian times). They tend to be near railway stations (but not in them) and railway lines, not surprisingly, and may even have a street address such as "3 Railway Cottages". They will all have been sold off on the private market, in most cases a long time ago, or bought up as social housing by local governments, so anyone may now live in them.
Explanation:
The opinion about the Russian society that Leo Tolstoy expresses in this excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the following one:
<span>D. Peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.
We can see that Ivan's servant is with him all along during his sickness, helping him and understanding what is going on, whereas people who belong to the middle or upper class regard his condition with disgust. </span>
