Story of a Life: In that dawn |
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Page 158
The excitement infected even our pioneer company, armed with Japanese rifles
but without a single bullet. We stood and waited on the parade ground. A rainy
dawn was breaking through the clouds across the Dnieper. The wide green
fingers ...
The excitement infected even our pioneer company, armed with Japanese rifles
but without a single bullet. We stood and waited on the parade ground. A rainy
dawn was breaking through the clouds across the Dnieper. The wide green
fingers ...
Page 197
shaggy horses stood in profile, shaking their heads. Instead of blankets, they
were covered with Jewish prayer-shawls. The men sat on the flat-wagons, legs
hanging over the side. Brown riding boots swung by, sandals, felt shoes, boots
laced ...
shaggy horses stood in profile, shaking their heads. Instead of blankets, they
were covered with Jewish prayer-shawls. The men sat on the flat-wagons, legs
hanging over the side. Brown riding boots swung by, sandals, felt shoes, boots
laced ...
Page 208
Having brought the water home, we poured it into a large glass carboy which
stood on the landing. One day, Yasha went out onto the landing, and let out a yell
. I jumped out of my room, and could not believe my eyes — as I was looking at it,
...
Having brought the water home, we poured it into a large glass carboy which
stood on the landing. One day, Yasha went out onto the landing, and let out a yell
. I jumped out of my room, and could not believe my eyes — as I was looking at it,
...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
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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 |
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