The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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... Odessa . During the winter holidays of 1917 , Vadik had gone from Odessa to Petrograd , to stay with his grandfather , and got stuck for a year and a half . He thought of it as an exciting adventure . We travelled without further ...
... Odessa . During the winter holidays of 1917 , Vadik had gone from Odessa to Petrograd , to stay with his grandfather , and got stuck for a year and a half . He thought of it as an exciting adventure . We travelled without further ...
Page 200
... Odessa ate - or , as southerners say - fed on it . Sometimes even the supplies of firinka ran out . We ate it raw , only just salted , or minced and fried as fishcakes . The fishcakes - ' seasoned with tears ' as the Odessans put it ...
... Odessa ate - or , as southerners say - fed on it . Sometimes even the supplies of firinka ran out . We ate it raw , only just salted , or minced and fried as fishcakes . The fishcakes - ' seasoned with tears ' as the Odessans put it ...
Page 203
... Odessa , to firinka and maize bread . The poor food was never a great hardship and it worried me still less after I made a deal with the cook of the French ship , the Dumont - Durville , anchored in the port . He bartered two tins of ...
... Odessa , to firinka and maize bread . The poor food was never a great hardship and it worried me still less after I made a deal with the cook of the French ship , the Dumont - Durville , anchored in the port . He bartered two tins of ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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