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Manor in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, after marrying and deciding to settle down and take up farming, a wizard settled. He is in love with his wife and promises to live like everyone else,
The commander of the partisan detachment, Levinson, orders the orderly Morozka to take the package to another detachment. Frost does not want to go, he suggests sending someone else; Levinson quietly orders the orderly
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In one village there lives a peasant. He has three sons: the elder Danilo clever, the average Gavrilo “and so, and syak,” the youngest Ivan is a fool. Brothers make a living by growing
The poem, borrowing one of the plots of the “Mahabharata” In Dvaraka, the capital of the Yadav family, is the divine sage Narada and transmits to Krishna, the leader of the Yadavas and the
VO Pelevin The Ninth Dream of Vera Pavlovna The story recalls a detailed review of “What to do?” Chernyshevsky. It was a little late, though, a review, but it was done famously, masterfully. The