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... Odessa , to be repaired in the railroad work- shops there . We went through Kiev , the city of my childhood . I saw it at dawn from the siding at the station . The sun was already gilding the pyramid - shaped poplar trees and shining ...
... Odessa , to be repaired in the railroad work- shops there . We went through Kiev , the city of my childhood . I saw it at dawn from the siding at the station . The sun was already gilding the pyramid - shaped poplar trees and shining ...
Page 559
... Odessa . Vadik had gone from Odessa to Petrograd to visit his grandfather in his winter vacation in 1917 and had got stuck there for a year and a half . Everything that had happened seemed extremely inter- esting to him . We traveled ...
... Odessa . Vadik had gone from Odessa to Petrograd to visit his grandfather in his winter vacation in 1917 and had got stuck there for a year and a half . Everything that had happened seemed extremely inter- esting to him . We traveled ...
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... Odessa easily outstripped all the cities of the south in rumors . Some of them were not only crazy , but also ominous . They literally blew into the city on the gusty north wind from the Kherson steppes . Soviet troops were driving ...
... Odessa easily outstripped all the cities of the south in rumors . Some of them were not only crazy , but also ominous . They literally blew into the city on the gusty north wind from the Kherson steppes . Soviet troops were driving ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich ΙΟ | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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