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... whole day in the courtyard . We heard shots about noon . Then the shots became more frequent . A fire started on Vassilkovskaya Street . Scraps of burning paper fell in our courtyard . In the afternoon my father brought back a ...
... whole day in the courtyard . We heard shots about noon . Then the shots became more frequent . A fire started on Vassilkovskaya Street . Scraps of burning paper fell in our courtyard . In the afternoon my father brought back a ...
Page 273
... whole world . But he was a very polite man ; when I gave him his ticket , he even tipped his hat and thanked me . The pas- sengers were shocked by this , and began to look with unfriendly curiosity at this strange character . When he ...
... whole world . But he was a very polite man ; when I gave him his ticket , he even tipped his hat and thanked me . The pas- sengers were shocked by this , and began to look with unfriendly curiosity at this strange character . When he ...
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... whole city to the Noyevsky Park or I would loaf around the outskirts , most often of all beyond Presna and in the fields around Devichi . These were hungry times . The ration was a quarter pound of black bread a day . I would take this ...
... whole city to the Noyevsky Park or I would loaf around the outskirts , most often of all beyond Presna and in the fields around Devichi . These were hungry times . The ration was a quarter pound of black bread a day . I would take this ...
Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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