...utterly destitute;be empty of all furniture;be extremely poor with only the walls of the household standing;with nothing is one's house but bare walls] 家中极端贫困,空无所有,徒有四堵墙壁树立 [my father] 家父,对人称自己的父亲 .
If the villages in this country tend to be poor, yet simultaneously rustic, charming and beautiful, the provincial towns are utterlydestitute appalling reminders of the complete and utter collapse of the former Soviet Union.