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Gentlemen of Tashkent. Pictures of morals. The whole book is built on the boundary of the analytical, grotesque essay and satirical narrative. So what kind of creature is this – a Tashkenter – and
You probably remember this year: the Church of Christ the Savior was broken. For the layman it was more terrible than the October coup. Then, before the beginning of the novel, the author conceived
AM Remizov Inexhaustible tambourine An outlandish man Ivan Semenovich Stratilatov. Young began his judicial service in a long, low, smoky office of the criminal department. And now forty years have passed, and many secretaries
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