The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 107
... Caspian Sea the geologist , Alexey , suffered an acute form of nervous breakdown , and was now resting in his mother's house in Livny . The Shatskys lived in an old timber house near the rail- way . The geologist did not like sitting in ...
... Caspian Sea the geologist , Alexey , suffered an acute form of nervous breakdown , and was now resting in his mother's house in Livny . The Shatskys lived in an old timber house near the rail- way . The geologist did not like sitting in ...
Page 114
... Caspian Sea lay that inaccessible and dangerous plateau which looked like a gravestone , and had a perimeter of several hundred miles . No roads lead to it . Notwithstanding Alexey's words I felt no fear . Rather I was gripped by an ...
... Caspian Sea lay that inaccessible and dangerous plateau which looked like a gravestone , and had a perimeter of several hundred miles . No roads lead to it . Notwithstanding Alexey's words I felt no fear . Rather I was gripped by an ...
Page 157
... Caspian Sea , right down to the beginning of the sea itself - very shallow in those places - are overgrown with a wide bed of reeds known as chagan.62 Their hard , black racemes or ' maces ' resembled small corn cobs or somewhat far ...
... Caspian Sea , right down to the beginning of the sea itself - very shallow in those places - are overgrown with a wide bed of reeds known as chagan.62 Their hard , black racemes or ' maces ' resembled small corn cobs or somewhat far ...
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Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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