The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 52
... smoke and the January cold hung like a low pall over Moscow . Trams , bells ringing , ground their slow way through the smoke . The carriages with their mantles of hoar - frost at the entrance , looked like caves of ice . Bonfires in ...
... smoke and the January cold hung like a low pall over Moscow . Trams , bells ringing , ground their slow way through the smoke . The carriages with their mantles of hoar - frost at the entrance , looked like caves of ice . Bonfires in ...
Page 58
... smoke , the smoke of its burning birch logs , out of every one of its chimney stacks . The smoke was purple in the frosty sun . In front of me the river Klyazma sent up clouds of steam just as fiercely as Pushkino billowed forth its ...
... smoke , the smoke of its burning birch logs , out of every one of its chimney stacks . The smoke was purple in the frosty sun . In front of me the river Klyazma sent up clouds of steam just as fiercely as Pushkino billowed forth its ...
Page 168
... smoke on the earth , smoke of all shades and colours from a canary - yellow ' fox tail ' to violet , brown , red , white , and blue - black . The sky was always covered in smoke . I saw the real Urals when I went for several days to ...
... smoke on the earth , smoke of all shades and colours from a canary - yellow ' fox tail ' to violet , brown , red , white , and blue - black . The sky was always covered in smoke . I saw the real Urals when I went for several days to ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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