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... Russia that the oldest residents of the city had no conception of . Fifty versts from Moscow the backwoods started - woods filled with bandits , unusable roads , decayed old settlements , ancient peeling churches , little horses with ...
... Russia that the oldest residents of the city had no conception of . Fifty versts from Moscow the backwoods started - woods filled with bandits , unusable roads , decayed old settlements , ancient peeling churches , little horses with ...
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... Russia was falling apart into separate little countries cut off from each other by the lack of roads , the destruction of the mails and the telegraph system , blown - up bridges , and the sudden elon- gation of all distance . Little ...
... Russia was falling apart into separate little countries cut off from each other by the lack of roads , the destruction of the mails and the telegraph system , blown - up bridges , and the sudden elon- gation of all distance . Little ...
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... Russia and would never be one , that all was lost , and that there was nothing more to live for . It was as if the singer guessed my thoughts , for he said : " Most gracious God , what has happened to Russia ? It's some kind of bad ...
... Russia and would never be one , that all was lost , and that there was nothing more to live for . It was as if the singer guessed my thoughts , for he said : " Most gracious God , what has happened to Russia ? It's some kind of bad ...
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