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Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye5 near the little town of
Chernobyl. There, my Aunt Vera, who lived in Kiev, owned a small estate, Kopan,
which Mama had undertaken to run. Anything to do with the land delighted her.
Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye5 near the little town of
Chernobyl. There, my Aunt Vera, who lived in Kiev, owned a small estate, Kopan,
which Mama had undertaken to run. Anything to do with the land delighted her.
Page 20
The day after I arrived, I was telling Galya and Mama about Moscow and the
revolution, when I looked out of the window and saw an old, hunchbacked little
monk, in a dusty habit and pointed hat, trudging from the woods towards the
house.
The day after I arrived, I was telling Galya and Mama about Moscow and the
revolution, when I looked out of the window and saw an old, hunchbacked little
monk, in a dusty habit and pointed hat, trudging from the woods towards the
house.
Page 89
Galya wrote: You promised Mama to come in spring, but there is still no sign of
you and we are losing hope. Mama has suddenly aged a lot. You wouldn't
recognise her. She keeps silent for days on end and at night, when she thinks I
am ...
Galya wrote: You promised Mama to come in spring, but there is still no sign of
you and we are losing hope. Mama has suddenly aged a lot. You wouldn't
recognise her. She keeps silent for days on end and at night, when she thinks I
am ...
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Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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