Story of a Life: In that dawn |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 59
Page 41
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
Page 58
4 The Hall with the Fountain The Government moved from Petrograd to Moscow.
Soon afterwards, I was sent to cover Lenin's address to the demobilised soldiers
at the Lefortovo Barracks. It was a rainy evening. The air in the enormous ...
4 The Hall with the Fountain The Government moved from Petrograd to Moscow.
Soon afterwards, I was sent to cover Lenin's address to the demobilised soldiers
at the Lefortovo Barracks. It was a rainy evening. The air in the enormous ...
Page 82
If things really came to life, how they would tangle up our social relationships,
and how much richer history would bel No one knew exactly how many large
private houses there were in Moscow at the time of the October Revolution:
people ...
If things really came to life, how they would tangle up our social relationships,
and how much richer history would bel No one knew exactly how many large
private houses there were in Moscow at the time of the October Revolution:
people ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amalia Anarchists Antoshchenko arms army asked Atamans Bolsheviks Boulevard broken bullet burst cigarette Commander Commissar Cossack crowd dark Denikin Dnieper Dodya door driver empty everything eyes face fire flowers front Gaidamaks Galya garden gate gave German girl greatcoat grey hall hand head heard hell Hetman hung journalists Junkers Khvat Kiev knew Left SRs listen lived looked Lucienna machine-gun Makhno Mama Martov Maximilian Voloshin morning Moscow Nazarov never night Odessa once Pan Kturenda Pavlo Skoropadski Petlyura Petrograd platform priests pulled quiet realised Red Army Red Guards regiment revolution rifle round Russia seemed Shchelkunov shot shouted silence Simbirsk sitting smell smiled smoke soldiers sound Soviet station stood stopped street suddenly talk thought took town train Treaty of Brest-Litovsk turned Tverskoy Boulevard Ukraine Ukrainian voice wagon waiting walked wall whistle wind window woman yard Yasha young
Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |