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...er shy, and thus is in real demand of a soulful conversations and love. The action take place in the city of a real and deep sentiments and romance — Saint Petersburg, the most romantic and european city in Russia. Not only the location is important, but also a time of a day: all actions in the story take place in evening and night time — the famous time of white nights. O...

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...lize that yellow is a color neither of sun nor of life nor whatever, but it is a color of decay, corruption and something hectic) underground of poor Saint Petersburg’s borough. And you feel like that underground trying to kill you, trying to eliminate of your individuality and make your soul look like a sort of madness, like all that dirty corners and floors of that dirty...

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...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...uberculosis for the rest of his life. Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Demo... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne... ...e American public. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for his tome, The Spirit of Saint Louis and died in 1974 in Hawaii. The kidnapping and gr... ...o (1842). The opera was so adored that it was still playing in Buenos Aires and St. Petersburg a decade later. As opposed to nostalgic re-writin... .... His first large paintings were left unfinished ("The Adoration of the Magi" and "Saint Jerome", both 1481). Most of the sketches and studies f...

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... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ...word ‗God.‘ It‘s like using the word dog. One person may be thinking of a Saint Bernard and another of a toy poodle. ―While many of your ... ... the contradictions in the scriptures and the unholiness of their warrior saints. They can rationalize the existence of evil with the plotting of dev... ...today you fear for your wallet, if not your life. On my last visit to St. Petersburg I had just left the subway and was riding the escalator up to th... ...n the personal experiences of a few people who say they have seen angels, saints or Jesus. ―Religionists say that the chances for a cell ...

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... for the deterioration of this first family, and it (equally so in so-called saints and laymen) was graphic. It was salacious. It was violent. It ... ... was a halo about her head since sick people needed their mothers, gods, and saints. "Poor, Gaby, time has run by like a shell shocked soldier, and sh... ...ssibilities entered her head. She told herself that whoever it was, thief or saint, if this person weren't scared away by the fire alarm, she would de... ...ild's book called "Heroes of the Bible." It was published by the Latter Day Saints. She wondered whether these dragon flies were so insecure that th... ...d Catholic school, and who might draw some "pictures" of the school's patron saint. He said it in various ways but each time she felt flaunted like a ... ...ussian Orthodox services and it makes my sister feel like she is back in St. Petersburg." "Not Christian or atheist, but a devout church going non-bel... ...ter into the air making a rainbow. "Are you still planning to go back to St. Petersburg?" she asked. "Yes, just for a couple months." "Are you still p...

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...obiecte negre, accentuate... conceput de Jean Tinguely (elve ţian) şi Niki de Saint Phalle (francez) – intitulat “Hommage à Stravinsky”. Şi muzic ă ... ...entimente. Clubul era de fapt un restaurant semiîntunecat. Str ăb ătusem Bd. Saint Michel, Bd. Montparnasse (de bog ăta şi, aici locuie şte şi dram... ...olo: – Poate c ă nu-s de rangul ei, dar nici ea nu-i de ranga mea!... Pe Rue Saint-Remi, lâng ă port. Mas într-o libr ărie. Dau cu ochii prin raftu... ... du Taur. Pere ţi în lemn şi în c ăr ămid ă (colombages)... Bazilica roman ă Saint Sernin. Mormântul martirului St. Saturnin. Muzic ă la org ă... ... ...tatea Autostr ăzii 14, iar pe linia ferat ă se ajunge în 37 de minute la Gara Saint Lazare din Paris. Este un ora ş industrial, are 460 de întreprin... ...t ne mai învioreaz ă. Recunosc dup ă accent un marinar rus, Serghei, din St. Petersburg. Ajungem pe fundul apei: albastru, verde. O broasc ă ţestoa...

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...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Double: A Petersburg Poem by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pen... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The Double A Petersburg Poem By Fyodor Dostoevsky T ranslated by Constance Garnett CHA... ...ld not possibly doubt that he was not in the land of Nod, but in the city of Petersburg, in his own flat on the fourth storey of a huge block of build... ...ping up the endless squeaky, jangling concert with which every inhabitant of Petersburg is so familiar. Snow and rain were falling both at once. Lashe... ...he rain, and all the nameless horrors of a raging snowstorm and fog, under a Petersburg Novem ber sky, were attacking Mr. Golyadkin, already shattere... ...some rag, some rotten dishcloth; you’re a gossip, an old woman! … Oh, all ye saints! And he wrote verses, the rogue, and expressed his love for me! Ho...

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...d rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs t...

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...nd Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseill... ...your old friends; and I know one down there Alexandre Dumas 15 behind the Saint Nicolas citadel who will not be sorry to hear it.” “Mercedes?” said t... ...his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pa... ...se’s temper at the moment, to take him off towards Marseilles by the Porte Saint-Victor, stagger- ing as he went. When they had advanced about twenty ... ...t again!” Then the vehicle disap- peared round one of the turnings of Fort Saint Nicholas. “Wait for me here, all of you!” cried M. Morrel; “I will ta... ...count, leaning over a large table, was tracing on a map the route from St. Petersburg to China. The procureur entered with the same grave and measured...

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................................................ 132 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ................................................................. ...l nigh, out of which a Capet, whipt of the Furies, fired his signal of the Saint Bartholomew! Dark is the way of the Eternal as mirrored in this world... ...ty; but they could not continue. The month is still October when famishing Saint-Antoine, in a moment of passion, seizes a poor Baker, innocent ‘Franc... ...s: surely no pleasant mission: for the English would not speak to him; and Saint Hannah More of England, so unlike Saint Sillery-Genlis of France, saw... ...nerally: adust, melancholic, middle-aged Petit-Jean: why came these two to Saint-Cloud, where his Majesty was hunting, on the festival of St. Peter an... ...netting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke has raised his great voice long...

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...y the Archbishop. None of the nuns may leave the convent; though the great Saint, St. Theresa, often left her cell. The Visitor or the Mothers Supe- r... ... dim that you could scarcely see the great black crucifix, the portrait of Saint Theresa, and a picture of the Madonna which adorned the grey parlour ... ...d to lose sight of all but the soul. If the doctrine and the spirit of the Saint to whom we owe this refuge had not raised me above earth’s anguish, a... ... present relation to each other. The thing known in France as the Faubourg Saint-Germain is neither a Quarter, nor a sect, nor an institution, nor any... ...ecise definition. There are great houses in the Place Royale, the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and the Chaussee d’Antin, in any one of which you may breathe... ... kind in every way—” “Yes, to be sure. The Comte de Montriveau died at St. Petersburg,” said the Vidame. “I met him there. He was a big man with an in...

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...that she will, in all probability, inherit the fortune of M. and Madame de Saint-Meran, her mother’s parents, who both love her tenderly.” “And who ar... ...ount of Monte Cristo “Then,” cried Villefort, “was it you who bought M. de Saint-Meran’s house!” “Did it belong to M. de Saint-Meran?” demanded Monte ... ... For example, you see these two fish; one brought fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagues from Naples. Is it not amusing to see th... ...d, and dull too. I recollect coming for my mother to look at it when M. de Saint- Meran advertised it for sale two or three years ago.” “M. de Saint-M... ...Saint-Meran?” said Madame de Villefort; “then this house belonged to M. de Saint-Meran before you bought it?” “It appears so,” replied Monte Cristo. “... ... proceeding. This house is part of Valentine’s marriage-portion, and M. de Saint- Meran wished to sell it; for if it had remained another year or two ... .... May I give you a friendly counsel? Set out for Naples, the Hague, or St. Petersburg — calm countries, where the point of honor is better understood ...

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... contrary be produced, in the per- son of the Abbe de Rothelin. The Valois-Saint-Remy, who descended from Henri II., also came to an end in the fa- mo... ...e, a pension of three hundred francs, and sent him, moreover, the cross of Saint-Louis. Never was it known positively by what means the old cheva- lie... ...secrations of his title and merits. But one thing is certain; the cross of Saint-Louis au- thorized him to take the rank of retired colonel in view of... ...s, while breakfasting, the chevalier usually amused himself as much as the saints in heaven. Suzanne was one of his favorites, a clever, ambitious gir... ...as not received in the seven or eight fami- lies who composed the faubourg Saint-Germain of Alencon, among whom the Chevalier de Valois was welcome. H... ...nce, and was now returning with a great fortune made at the court of Saint-Petersburg; he was a foreigner; one of those allies so hated by the liberal...

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...her aunt and her elder brother. This brother soon after obtained a post in Petersburg, and made them a scanty allowance. He treated his aunt and siste... ...ust introduced to the reader was Vladimir Nikolaitch Panshin. He served in Petersburg on special commissions in the department of in- ternal affairs. ... ...rase in German is quite correct, c’est meme tres chic, as the Parisians of Petersburg express themselves. By the time he was fifteen, Vladimir knew ho... ...e reputation of being one of the smartest and most attractive young men in Petersburg. Panshin was indeed very smart, not less so than his father; but... ...ugh; he was anxious to be in favour with the brilliant young official from Petersburg—the governor’s favourite. In conversation with Marya Dmitrievna,... ..., Piotr Andreitch, had inscribed in one place, “Celebration in the city of Saint Petersburg of the peace, concluded with the T urkish empire by his Ex... ...cents she would narrate the life of the Holy Virgin, the lives of hermits, saints, and holy men. She would tell Lisa how the holy men lived in deserts... ...hy, if you are so sick at heart, go on a pilgrimage, offer prayers to some saint, have a Te Deum sung, but don’t put the black hood on your head, my d...

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...e. I will be brief—and don’t you interrupt me. I was living at the time in Petersburg and had only just left the University. My brother was a lieutena... ... been ordered off for a whole week somewhere. I did not want to go back to Petersburg; I sauntered about the neighbouring marshes, killed a brace of s... ...HE STORY which T yeglev told me was, briefly, as follows. He had living in Petersburg, besides his influential uncle, an aunt, not influential but wea... ...is letter to the colonel. Can something unexpected have happened to you in Petersburg?” “I found in Petersburg exactly what I expected,” answered Tyeg... ...me to time, “T yeglev! T yeglev!” “Here!” I heard suddenly in answer. Holy saints, how relieved I was! How I rushed in the direc- tion from which the ... ...d you?” Naum said all this very calmly and even with a slight smile. “Holy saints!” cried Avdotya, “it’s beyond everything! Be- yond everything! How c... ...f a trial.” “Oh, that’s enough. I see you are drunk already, and to- day a saint’s day, too!” Yefrem all at once, quite unexpectedly, burst into tears... ...eld up his finger and spoke: ‘Bow down to the holy ikon, to the honourable Saints Zossima and Savvaty of Solovki.’ I bowed down to the earth and did n... ...big, with a huge head.... He flew like a whirlwind, like a bullet.... Holy saints! what was it? He stopped all at once, as though he scented something...

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...forced in this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have ke... ...ality is naturally credited with reserve power. By his comrades at the St. Petersburg University, Kirylo Sidorovitch Razumov, third year’s student in ... ...Excel- lency. One of the most promising students of his faculty in the St. Petersburg University.” To his intense surprise Razumov saw a white shapely... ...rative to exclaim— “A bright spirit ! A hardy soul! The best driver in St. Petersburg. He has a team of three horses there… . Ah! He’s a fellow!” 14 ... ...commented the keeper of the eat- ing-house. “A proper Russian driver that. Saint or devil, night or day is all one to Ziemianitch when his heart is fr... ... you shall be looked upon as a martyr some day —a sort of hero—a political saint. But I beg to be excused. I am content in fitting myself to be a work...

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...oming from Savenay, the arrondissement to which it belongs, which stops at Saint-Nazaire; and a second road, leading from Vannes, which connects it wi... ...bihan. The arrondissement road establishes communication by land, and from Saint-Nazaire by water, with Nantes. The land road is used only by governme... ...y government; the more rapid and more fre- quented way being by water from Saint-Nazaire. Now, be- tween this village and Guerande is a distance of ei... ...t vast fortification, which is still as good as ever. If you come to it by Saint- Nazaire, the picturesqueness of its position and the naive grace of ... ...carrier who carries travellers, merchandise, and occasionally letters from Saint-Nazaire to Guerande and vice versa. Bernus, the carrier, was, in 1829... ...er death; she died at the age of forty-nine, during the emigration, at St. Petersburg, the climate of which killed her. She must be very cold in her c...

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...n of the Commander-in-Chief. Vorontsov’ s wife, Marya V asilevna, a famous Petersburg beauty , was with him and they lived in this little Caucasian fo... ...ered by a 17 Tolstoy shaggy young man of gloomy appearance, a graduate of Petersburg University whom Princess V orontsov had lately had sent to the C... ...th showing and his eyes glittering. “ And does he really consider him a saint?” asked Loris- Melikov. “If he were not a saint the people would n... ...e people would not listen to him,” said Gamzalo rapidly . “Shamil is no saint, but Mansur was!” replied Khan Mahoma. “He was a real saint. When he ... ...s and vow to do no evil. Then all the people—so the old men say—lived like saints: not drinking, nor smoking, nor neglecting their prayers, and forgiv... ...lightful that sometimes it appeared too good to be true that he was not in Petersburg—in a room filled with tobacco smoke, turning down the corners of... ...ith dinner services and bottles. Everything recalled life in the Guards in Petersburg. Dinner was served at two o-clock. Kozlovsky sat in the middle o... ...rm the rites of prayer demanded by the Mohammedan law . Vorontsov wrote to Petersburg about it but meanwhile gave Hadji Murad permission to go to Nukh...

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...fteen, he achieved a momen- tous one. He ascertained that his mother was a saint. She had always been a very distinct presence in his life, but so ine... ...I fairly despise my amiabil- ity. It ‘s rather a hard fate, to live like a saint and to pass for a sinner! I should like for six months to lead Mrs. H... ...he received him with a meek-eyed dignity that made her seem like a painted saint on a church window, receiving the daylight in all her being. The brea... ...beatific vi- sions; he lived on weak wine and biscuits, and wore a lock of Saint Somebody’s hair in a little bag round his neck. If he was not a Beato... ... first Sunday afternoon following their return, on their going together to Saint Peter’s, he delivered himself of a lyrical greeting to the great chur... ...ftly. “We are going to London. We are going to Vienna. We are going to St. Petersburg.” Prince Casamassima dropped his eyes and fretted the earth with...

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...RESSE) I IN S EPTEMBER, 1835, one of the richest heiresses of the faubourg Saint-Germain, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, the only daughter of the Marquis du ... ...us have the melancholy courage to admit this, and to say that the faubourg Saint-Germain is still the debtor of Poland. Was Comte Adam rich, or was he... ...ring it out. There is, probably, more real con- versation in Vienna or St. Petersburg than in Paris. Equals do not need to employ delicacy or shrewdne... ...the tossing waves of what we call society, the century, Paris, London, St. Petersburg,—or what you will. If the axiom that architecture is the express... ...so the true poets and solitarys of the second Chris- tian century, and the Saint Teresas of Spain, and such sub- lime ecstatics. All human sentiments ... ...a only on the posters,” said Paz, with a piqued air. “She lives in the rue Saint-Lazare, in a pretty apartment on the third story, all velvet and silk... ...me for some mountebank like your Malaga. Where did you first see her?” “At Saint-Cloud, last September, on the fete-day. She was at a corner of a boot... ...ine together to-morrow for the last time. If I don’t start at once for St. Petersburg I shall have to make the journey by land, and I am not rich, and...

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...ish his remains were carried home and buried in the V olkoff Cemetery, St. Petersburg. The grey crow he had once seen in foreign fields and addressed ... ...ng up the back staircase of a five-storied house on Officers Street in St. Petersburg. Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging... ...arefully hid the copy-book in which they were written, and none of his St. Petersburg friends, with the exception of Paklin, and he only by his peculi... ... was coming into his life. He had no regrets at the thought of leaving St. Petersburg, as he would leave nothing behind that was especially dear to hi... ...ote until midnight. The following day, the 9th of May, was Kolia’s patron- saint’s day. Although the church was not a quarter of a mile off, the whole... ...she wants everyone to bow down before her as a beauty and worship her as a saint! She will invent a pretty speech, say it to one person, repeat it to ... ... neat little people, just like two poll-parrots; and kind to stupidity, to saintliness, there is no end to their kindness! I am told that excessive ki... ... awful names they give themselves nowadays!” “What, for instance?” “Nogent Saint Lorraine, for instance! A regular brigand’s name!” Fomishka asked inc... ...are arranged in this world! She ought to have such a name. Do you know who Saint Snandulia was? She was a virtuous woman who used to visit prisons and...