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Konstantin paustovsky biography of mahatma gandhi

          One of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer's coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the....

          In , Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union's most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a.

        1. “I lost touch with Russia for almost two years,” Konstantin Paustovsky writes in the introduction to this, the fifth volume of his autobiography.
        2. One of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer's coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the.
        3. Paustovsky enjoys life and always returns to books as a reliable source of pleasure and comfort.
        4. In , Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Unions most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a life.

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          Lenin began to speak. I could not hear well. I was squeezed tight in the crown. Someone&#;s rifle butt was pressing into my side.

          Business & Finance · Career Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination The Murderer, The Monarch and by Konstantin Paustovsky · Starting at $

          The soldier standing right behind me laid his heavy hand on my shoulder and squeezed it from time to time, convulsively tightening his fingers&#;.

          He spoke slowly about the meaning of the Brest-Litovsk peace, about the treachery of the Left Social Revolutionaries, about the alliance of the workers with the peasants, and about bread, about how necessary it was to stop the endless meetings and noise in Moscow, waiting for no one knew what, and to start to work the land as quickly as possible and to trust the government and the party&#;.

          The heavy hand was now lying quietly on my shoulder, as if resting.

          I felt in its weight something like a friendly caress. This was the hand the solider would use to stroke the shaved heads of his children when he got back to his villa