The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 177
... lakes with their pewter ... Onega , sung by an old woman , as they had been by the minstrels of old . Songs born out of the arctic night and arctic grief , saw our timber - built Florence with its churches and monasteries , sailed on the lake ...
... lakes with their pewter ... Onega , sung by an old woman , as they had been by the minstrels of old . Songs born out of the arctic night and arctic grief , saw our timber - built Florence with its churches and monasteries , sailed on the lake ...
Page 179
... Lake Onega , in the granite rocks ( where it sparkled in myriads of tiny dots as if they had been scattered millions of years ago and had been soldered into the hard stone ) , in the very air , seeming white because of the light nights ...
... Lake Onega , in the granite rocks ( where it sparkled in myriads of tiny dots as if they had been scattered millions of years ago and had been soldered into the hard stone ) , in the very air , seeming white because of the light nights ...
Page 183
... Lake Onega the passengers were transferred to a tiny , so - called ' ditch ' steamer . It by - passed Lake Onega through another canal coming out at Vytegra and then proceeded farther along the Maryinsky network . The steamer was so old ...
... Lake Onega the passengers were transferred to a tiny , so - called ' ditch ' steamer . It by - passed Lake Onega through another canal coming out at Vytegra and then proceeded farther along the Maryinsky network . The steamer was so old ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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