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... Cherkasy , on the Dnieper , lived my other grandmother— Vikentiya Ivanovna , a tall old Polish woman . She had a lot of daughters , who were my aunts . One of them , Yefrosinya Gri- gorievna , was the director of the girls ' gymnasium ...
... Cherkasy , on the Dnieper , lived my other grandmother— Vikentiya Ivanovna , a tall old Polish woman . She had a lot of daughters , who were my aunts . One of them , Yefrosinya Gri- gorievna , was the director of the girls ' gymnasium ...
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... Cherkasy . They had pink flowers . I loved their grayish leaves and their pale blossoms . They were linked in my imagina- tion somehow with the sea - far away , warm , washing the shores of countries flowering with oleanders ...
... Cherkasy . They had pink flowers . I loved their grayish leaves and their pale blossoms . They were linked in my imagina- tion somehow with the sea - far away , warm , washing the shores of countries flowering with oleanders ...
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... Cherkasy with my aunt Yefrosinya Grigorievna . My grandfather had been dead for a long time , and my aunt Yefrosinya Grigorievna died of heart failure during the summer when I went to Polessya . So my grand- mother then moved to Kiev ...
... Cherkasy with my aunt Yefrosinya Grigorievna . My grandfather had been dead for a long time , and my aunt Yefrosinya Grigorievna died of heart failure during the summer when I went to Polessya . So my grand- mother then moved to Kiev ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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