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... looked over the heads of the crowd . I saw , filing arrogantly down the central aisle of the nave , the sugar - loaf " Budenny " hats of Soviet soldiers . It was the period when the government was confiscating church property all over ...
... looked over the heads of the crowd . I saw , filing arrogantly down the central aisle of the nave , the sugar - loaf " Budenny " hats of Soviet soldiers . It was the period when the government was confiscating church property all over ...
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... looked . “ If Lev had given me only a tiny bit of it , I would have been rapturously happy . But here was half a loaf ! His grand gesture affected me . A generous nature and a nobility of spirit distinguished Lev from ordi- nary men ...
... looked . “ If Lev had given me only a tiny bit of it , I would have been rapturously happy . But here was half a loaf ! His grand gesture affected me . A generous nature and a nobility of spirit distinguished Lev from ordi- nary men ...
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... looked fondly at the dead , while the dead man looked towards Hades with eyes that were neither happy nor sad , but somehow blank— the look of one who knew too much.2 The location of Marfino was in fact an open secret to the Moscow ...
... looked fondly at the dead , while the dead man looked towards Hades with eyes that were neither happy nor sad , but somehow blank— the look of one who knew too much.2 The location of Marfino was in fact an open secret to the Moscow ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
FAREWELL TO THE OLD WORLD | 60 |
Copyright | |
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