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In Russia he seemed always to be only half awake . ... I am a Russian and I love
Russia so that it breaks my heart . It ' s just that I don ' t recognise her now .
Sometimes I wonder if I really am in Russia — I can ' t believe it . I listen to people
...
In Russia he seemed always to be only half awake . ... I am a Russian and I love
Russia so that it breaks my heart . It ' s just that I don ' t recognise her now .
Sometimes I wonder if I really am in Russia — I can ' t believe it . I listen to people
...
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came up to me and , pointing in the direction of Russia , barked out : ' Zurück ! ' '
Give him five rubles in Tsarist money , ' the driver told me . ' That ' ll get rid of the
bastard . ' I held out a ten - ruble note . ' No , no ! the soldier shouted , shaking his
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came up to me and , pointing in the direction of Russia , barked out : ' Zurück ! ' '
Give him five rubles in Tsarist money , ' the driver told me . ' That ' ll get rid of the
bastard . ' I held out a ten - ruble note . ' No , no ! the soldier shouted , shaking his
...
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26 Alexander Vertinsky ( 1888 - 1957 ) : popular poet who set his poems to music
and gave recitals ; emigrated in 1919 , returned to Russia in 1943 . 27 In 1905
Paustovsky , then a schoolboy , joined a revolutionary demonstration which was
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26 Alexander Vertinsky ( 1888 - 1957 ) : popular poet who set his poems to music
and gave recitals ; emigrated in 1919 , returned to Russia in 1943 . 27 In 1905
Paustovsky , then a schoolboy , joined a revolutionary demonstration which was
...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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