The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 58
... hall was grey with cigarette smoke . The rain beat on the dusty windows . The soldiers , in dirty foot rags and sodden boots , their rifles beside them , sat on the muddy floor . The majority were men from the front , stranded in Moscow ...
... hall was grey with cigarette smoke . The rain beat on the dusty windows . The soldiers , in dirty foot rags and sodden boots , their rifles beside them , sat on the muddy floor . The majority were men from the front , stranded in Moscow ...
Page 63
... hall as seen from the Dais , sat the Bolsheviks and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries . The few but noisy Mensheviks , Social Revolutionaries and Internationalists sat on the right . I often came to the sessions . I liked to arrive ...
... hall as seen from the Dais , sat the Bolsheviks and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries . The few but noisy Mensheviks , Social Revolutionaries and Internationalists sat on the right . I often came to the sessions . I liked to arrive ...
Page 143
... hall , and said to Amalia : ' Careful , ducks . Don't bump into it . Or it'll go bang and your house and furniture will be nothing but a dream . Understand ? ' ' I understand , ' Amalia said grimly . She at once unlocked the long ...
... hall , and said to Amalia : ' Careful , ducks . Don't bump into it . Or it'll go bang and your house and furniture will be nothing but a dream . Understand ? ' ' I understand , ' Amalia said grimly . She at once unlocked the long ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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