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Sevastopol - cover

Sevastopol

Leo Tolstoy

Translator Isabel F. Hapgood

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

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Summary

Three short stories about the everyday life of besieged Sevastopol a century and a half ago. There are no main characters as such, or rather, each participant, whether an officer or a soldier, at one point or another is in the sight of the author’s attention. It is felt that the essays were written by a participant in the events, an eyewitness. In the first part of the work, the writer introduces us to the military situation of that time, the faces of the military through a description of the life of the soldiers, some episodes in my imagination merge into one face of a Russian soldier, who may have to die here.
Available since: 08/19/2019.
Print length: 148 pages.

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