The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 189
... Poti ? ' I explained that I had come to Poti to work on a book about the drainage of the Colchis marshes . For some reason Vaso's temper rose . - ' What are you singing to me about marshes for , man – like a nightingale ?! ' he shouted ...
... Poti ? ' I explained that I had come to Poti to work on a book about the drainage of the Colchis marshes . For some reason Vaso's temper rose . - ' What are you singing to me about marshes for , man – like a nightingale ?! ' he shouted ...
Page 193
... Poti in that book is made to appear in somewhat too favourable a light . That is how I saw the town and can do nothing about it . I cannot change my own vision . Sometimes even to me Poti seemed like a tropical hell , a place fit for ...
... Poti in that book is made to appear in somewhat too favourable a light . That is how I saw the town and can do nothing about it . I cannot change my own vision . Sometimes even to me Poti seemed like a tropical hell , a place fit for ...
Page 200
... Poti by rail . But it is a fact that misfortunes never come alone . At Samtredi station , where we changed trains for Poti , I caught typhus . Famine had started in the Ukraine at the time and thousands of refugees rushed off to the ...
... Poti by rail . But it is a fact that misfortunes never come alone . At Samtredi station , where we changed trains for Poti , I caught typhus . Famine had started in the Ukraine at the time and thousands of refugees rushed off to the ...
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The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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