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Page 32
She came out in a vague blue dress, with a gold watch chain around her neck
and a red sash pinned to her shoulder. Mama explained to me that this sash was
the reward for graduation with honors from the institute where Aunt Yefrosinya ...
She came out in a vague blue dress, with a gold watch chain around her neck
and a red sash pinned to her shoulder. Mama explained to me that this sash was
the reward for graduation with honors from the institute where Aunt Yefrosinya ...
Page 144
... they had just galloped sixty miles to get to the concert of some Nina Zagornaya,
cavalry officers with black sideburns, merchants in brown dress coats, frightened
brides in rose-colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a waterfall.
... they had just galloped sixty miles to get to the concert of some Nina Zagornaya,
cavalry officers with black sideburns, merchants in brown dress coats, frightened
brides in rose-colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a waterfall.
Page 213
Following the colonel, who was Nicholas II, came a very tall, dried-up woman in a
white, hard dress and with an enormous hat on her head, which she was nodding
. Ostrich feathers dropped down from the brim of her hat. The woman's face ...
Following the colonel, who was Nicholas II, came a very tall, dried-up woman in a
white, hard dress and with an enormous hat on her head, which she was nodding
. Ostrich feathers dropped down from the brim of her hat. The woman's face ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 1 The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Константин Паустовский |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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