Story of a Life: Years of hopeHarvill Press, 1968 - Authors, Russian |
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... Moscow and edited one of our most interesting periodicals , Thirty Days . All his experience as a journalist went into it and it was a brilliant job . Thirty Days serialised Ilf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs at a time when all other ...
... Moscow and edited one of our most interesting periodicals , Thirty Days . All his experience as a journalist went into it and it was a brilliant job . Thirty Days serialised Ilf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs at a time when all other ...
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Konstantin Paustovsky. he would show them views of Paris and Rome , Moscow and the Island of Madeira for nothing . It was hard to see how he made his living , for in those days , no one except Izya Livshitz went in for stereoscopic ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. he would show them views of Paris and Rome , Moscow and the Island of Madeira for nothing . It was hard to see how he made his living , for in those days , no one except Izya Livshitz went in for stereoscopic ...
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... Moscow- Odessa train , I had only to catch sight of red - tiled roofs in the glassy distance to know that the sea could not be far off . The tides were always washing up polished fragments of tiles on the beach and I never tired of ...
... Moscow- Odessa train , I had only to catch sight of red - tiled roofs in the glassy distance to know that the sea could not be far off . The tides were always washing up polished fragments of tiles on the beach and I never tired of ...
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Plywood Maze | 25 |
Barley Gruel | 29 |
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