The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 99
... lying there as of right . One of them was stuck to the sole of his shoe and afterwards was consumed , together with Mayakovsky , by the funerary flames . The hardest thing to bear about death for those who remain behind is the fact that ...
... lying there as of right . One of them was stuck to the sole of his shoe and afterwards was consumed , together with Mayakovsky , by the funerary flames . The hardest thing to bear about death for those who remain behind is the fact that ...
Page 102
... lying in his coffin in the House of Journalists in Nikitsky Avenue . A black sheet , indicating mourning , was stretched across the Avenue . The words " The body of a great national poet is lying here at rest ' were written on the sheet ...
... lying in his coffin in the House of Journalists in Nikitsky Avenue . A black sheet , indicating mourning , was stretched across the Avenue . The words " The body of a great national poet is lying here at rest ' were written on the sheet ...
Page 110
... lying . Nina was an ardent defender of the truth at all costs . ' I have a doctor's mind , ' she would say , ' I can't understand in what way it profits a man to tell lies , even the pleasantest possible lies . Any kind of truth is ...
... lying . Nina was an ardent defender of the truth at all costs . ' I have a doctor's mind , ' she would say , ' I can't understand in what way it profits a man to tell lies , even the pleasantest possible lies . Any kind of truth is ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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