The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 102
... dark , with low motionless clouds , sullenly silent . On days like these people light lamps in their houses earlier than usual , and the light of these lamps looks like the yolk of an egg . Chandeliers were lit in the large room where ...
... dark , with low motionless clouds , sullenly silent . On days like these people light lamps in their houses earlier than usual , and the light of these lamps looks like the yolk of an egg . Chandeliers were lit in the large room where ...
Page 169
... dark , as dark as the green shroud of the endless , frighteningly vast expanse of coniferous forests . The sharp turpentine smell of these forests spread far beyond Perm , beyond Vyatka and Kostroma , reached ancient Moscow , city of ...
... dark , as dark as the green shroud of the endless , frighteningly vast expanse of coniferous forests . The sharp turpentine smell of these forests spread far beyond Perm , beyond Vyatka and Kostroma , reached ancient Moscow , city of ...
Page 205
... dark - as dark as their age - out of Jurassic clays and Devonian sandstone . One fact in connection with the Vertushinka seems especially attractive , but somehow difficult to grasp . We have no mountains in the Moscow Province , just a ...
... dark - as dark as their age - out of Jurassic clays and Devonian sandstone . One fact in connection with the Vertushinka seems especially attractive , but somehow difficult to grasp . We have no mountains in the Moscow Province , just a ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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