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Page 26
Yet we knew about the rising in Petrograd, the storming of the Winter Palace, the
gunshot from the Aurora1*; we knew that martial law had been proclaimed in
Moscow, that well-armed units of soldiers and Red Guards were massing on the
...
Yet we knew about the rising in Petrograd, the storming of the Winter Palace, the
gunshot from the Aurora1*; we knew that martial law had been proclaimed in
Moscow, that well-armed units of soldiers and Red Guards were massing on the
...
Page 95
Their documents were in order, but you never knew — the authorities might pick
on something. In such circumstances, a stranger without a travel pass, without an
exit visa, could be a godsend to them. 'Why pick on us, who are loyal Soviet ...
Their documents were in order, but you never knew — the authorities might pick
on something. In such circumstances, a stranger without a travel pass, without an
exit visa, could be a godsend to them. 'Why pick on us, who are loyal Soviet ...
Page 182
Neither the Denikinists nor even the friendly civilians in Kiev knew anything about
it — the peasants in the nearby villages had never, by a single word, betrayed
their presence. Now they had irrupted into Kiev, taken half the city, seized a ...
Neither the Denikinists nor even the friendly civilians in Kiev knew anything about
it — the peasants in the nearby villages had never, by a single word, betrayed
their presence. Now they had irrupted into Kiev, taken half the city, seized a ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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