The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 25
... woman has got her teeth into Lusha : go on , she says , marry him , you must . And you know what my old woman is like ... women . The men went off to earn money in the neighbouring towns - Mikhailov , Ryazan , Pronsk , Kolomna , 25 The ...
... woman has got her teeth into Lusha : go on , she says , marry him , you must . And you know what my old woman is like ... women . The men went off to earn money in the neighbouring towns - Mikhailov , Ryazan , Pronsk , Kolomna , 25 The ...
Page 152
... women washed grey - looking underclothes and swaddling clothes all day long , babies yelled and screamed , old men and women hummed to themselves the prayer : ' Holy God , Holy and mighty , Holy and immortal , have mercy upon us ! ' To ...
... women washed grey - looking underclothes and swaddling clothes all day long , babies yelled and screamed , old men and women hummed to themselves the prayer : ' Holy God , Holy and mighty , Holy and immortal , have mercy upon us ! ' To ...
Page 156
... women , because of their national dress , the kazakin . It tightly squeezed the girls ' chests from early childhood and never let them develop . Moreover , the women wore heavy head - dresses known as shlyk , vast contraptions which ...
... women , because of their national dress , the kazakin . It tightly squeezed the girls ' chests from early childhood and never let them develop . Moreover , the women wore heavy head - dresses known as shlyk , vast contraptions which ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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