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immediately mown down by machine - gun fire from Nikitsky Gate . Sitting in the
lodge , we talked over the events of the past few days and were amazed by our
own stupidity . The fighting had taken us all by surprise . Yet we knew about the ...
immediately mown down by machine - gun fire from Nikitsky Gate . Sitting in the
lodge , we talked over the events of the past few days and were amazed by our
own stupidity . The fighting had taken us all by surprise . Yet we knew about the ...
Page 27
The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered
from ...
The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered
from ...
Page 84
Nothing was the matter - only foolish nonsense . But the nonsense , I realised ,
might cause me a lot of trouble . ' He ' s obviously an agent , ' a young woman ' s
voice said close to my ear . “ We must report to Comrade Fire . ' Look here , ' I
said ...
Nothing was the matter - only foolish nonsense . But the nonsense , I realised ,
might cause me a lot of trouble . ' He ' s obviously an agent , ' a young woman ' s
voice said close to my ear . “ We must report to Comrade Fire . ' Look here , ' I
said ...
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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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