Thread: Please check the translation of this little story.

The nobleman was owner of the village, right? If so i think the sentence should be like this Фёдор жил в доме, что (= который a bit bookish) стоял напротив дома помещика, которому принадлежала эта деревня.
Этот дом имел внутренний сад, окруженный низкой каменной оградой. (низкая [каменная] стена is something very strange to me in that context)

Thanks kib. Since serfdom was still in force in Russian at the time of the story, I imagine that the village should belong to the nobleman. And since the story is set in Russia, the low stone wall, as interesting feature as it is, should become a hegde, or fence.