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All of them were obedient little boys from good families, only Kasymov was capable of doing what was suggested by the close proximity of glass and brick, not thinking of the consequences for even a...
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впопыхах – helter-skelter, hastily ВПОПЫХА́Х нареч. попыхивая от усталости и спеху; торопко, торопливо, в недосуге; крайне спешно и как ни попало. One of those words that just sounds good, and it...
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I’m grateful to Erik McDonald of XIX век for spawning an interesting discussion of translation and communication based on Masha Gessen’s December NYT piece on Anna Karenina. That branching conversation...
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My translation of Tolstoy’s novella Childhood is now out in paperback! Please check it out at the links below: Childhood, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (paperback) Childhood, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy...
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But more than anything else, the air was heavy with the overpowering scent of aport apples. The aport was called the symbol of Almaty: the apple weighed nearly a kilogram. Round, fragrant, gigantic...
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However, one physical smell did distinguish our block. The large open yard in the middle of our block, where children played hide-and-seek, footbag, gorodki, and stander-stop, where the women hung...
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The list of her acquaintances was incomprehensibly large, multilayered, and complex. You could run into almost anyone hanging out with Vladka. She had even managed to make friends with Felik...
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These people had many names, each one stranger and more incomprehensible than the last: the Grain Monopoly, HarvAssessment, the Requisition, HarvTax, the Bolsheviks, HarvTroops, the Red Army, Soviet...
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“Zuleykha Valiyeva!” “That’s me.” She had never said “I” or “me” so many times in her entire life as she did in that first month of imprisonment. Modesty is beautiful — it was not fitting for a decent...
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The train went on further. Agryz, Butrysh, Sarapul… The children began to die first. One after another, as if they were playing tag, all the unfortunate peasant’s children passed to the other side —...
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