The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 69
... heard the words : ' On the banks of the Neva . ' But I had not , of course , realized what that meant until the majestic panorama of the palaces suddenly struck my vision and the blue waters of the Neva sparkled in front of me as I ...
... heard the words : ' On the banks of the Neva . ' But I had not , of course , realized what that meant until the majestic panorama of the palaces suddenly struck my vision and the blue waters of the Neva sparkled in front of me as I ...
Page 200
... heard the story . We immediately left for Poti by rail . But it is a fact that misfortunes never come alone . At Samtredi station , where we changed trains for Poti , I caught typhus . Famine had started in the Ukraine at the time and ...
... heard the story . We immediately left for Poti by rail . But it is a fact that misfortunes never come alone . At Samtredi station , where we changed trains for Poti , I caught typhus . Famine had started in the Ukraine at the time and ...
Page 203
... heard someone's heavy breathing and opened my eyes . A soldier in a dirty crumpled greatcoat was sitting on the floor next to my bed . He was wearing a fur cap of artificial Persian lamb to which a small piece of red cloth , faded in ...
... heard someone's heavy breathing and opened my eyes . A soldier in a dirty crumpled greatcoat was sitting on the floor next to my bed . He was wearing a fur cap of artificial Persian lamb to which a small piece of red cloth , faded in ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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