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... Cossack hetmans . Filled with these stories , I used to play battles with my brothers at Zaporozhskaya . We played in the ravine behind the farm where the dew was heavy on the wattled fences and on the thistles . Their red flowers and ...
... Cossack hetmans . Filled with these stories , I used to play battles with my brothers at Zaporozhskaya . We played in the ravine behind the farm where the dew was heavy on the wattled fences and on the thistles . Their red flowers and ...
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... Cossack blood . The Zaporozhskaya turbulence diminished over the years . By the time of my childhood it survived only in long - drawn - out , abusive lawsuits against Countess Branitskaya , and in Cossack songs . These were sung to us ...
... Cossack blood . The Zaporozhskaya turbulence diminished over the years . By the time of my childhood it survived only in long - drawn - out , abusive lawsuits against Countess Branitskaya , and in Cossack songs . These were sung to us ...
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Konstantin Paustovsky. " Halt ! " the Cossack commanded , and he added an obscenity about our mothers . The rest of ... Cossacks climbed the wall right after us . Bullets were whistling all around us . We ran up to the garden's other wall ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. " Halt ! " the Cossack commanded , and he added an obscenity about our mothers . The rest of ... Cossacks climbed the wall right after us . Bullets were whistling all around us . We ran up to the garden's other wall ...
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Carp | 16 |
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