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The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war,
A summary of Gorky’s “Old Woman Isergil”
The narrator listened to these stories in Bessarabia, on the seashore. He then worked with a group of Moldovans. They went to the sea in the evening, and the narrator remained in the vineyard
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Calm, free story about past events. The beginning, characteristic of Turgenev. On a winter evening, six people gathered at an old university friend. People, apparently, are not young and with education. Speech went by