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Page 8
I guessed that it was my father's sister Feodosia Maximovna — Aunt Dosia as
everyone called her — who had insisted on getting a priest. She believed in
absolution, though not in any other rites of the Church. In place of a Bible she
kept ...
I guessed that it was my father's sister Feodosia Maximovna — Aunt Dosia as
everyone called her — who had insisted on getting a priest. She believed in
absolution, though not in any other rites of the Church. In place of a Bible she
kept ...
Page 22
Aunt Dosia carried me, drowsing, into the cottage with its many-coloured rugs on
the floor. The cottage smelt of milk warm from the cow. Close to my face was the
rich embroidery on Aunt Dosia's snow-white sleeves. In the morning I woke up to
...
Aunt Dosia carried me, drowsing, into the cottage with its many-coloured rugs on
the floor. The cottage smelt of milk warm from the cow. Close to my face was the
rich embroidery on Aunt Dosia's snow-white sleeves. In the morning I woke up to
...
Page 65
After a sleepless night, and several hours before the performance, Aunt Dosia
would put on an ample brown satin dress embroidered with yellow flowers and
leaves, and a matching scarf round her neck. A tiny lace handkerchief crushed in
her ...
After a sleepless night, and several hours before the performance, Aunt Dosia
would put on an ample brown satin dress embroidered with yellow flowers and
leaves, and a matching scarf round her neck. A tiny lace handkerchief crushed in
her ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a life, Volume 1 Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 227 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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