Through Russia

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Максим Горький. Through Russia

THE BIRTH OF A MAN

THE ICEBREAKER

GUBIN

NILUSHKA

THE CEMETERY

ON A RIVER STEAMER

A WOMAN

IN A MOUNTAIN DEFILE

KALININ

THE DEAD MAN

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On a frozen river near a certain Russian town, a gang of seven carpenters were hastily repairing an icebreaker which the townsfolk had stripped for firewood.

That year spring happened to be late in arriving, and youthful March looked more like October, and only at noon, and that not on every day, did the pale, wintry sun show himself in the overcast heavens, or, glimmering in blue spaces between clouds, contemplate the earth with a squinting, malevolent eye.

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"Bestir yourselves! Look alive!"

Upon which all crowded together, and Boev, thrusting the tools into a hole in the bank, groaned:

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