Saksagan
Victory over the Turks part 32
And I think that men who lived then and associated with him must even now be marvelling at what was done then and think...
St. John`s Eve part 1
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
Born in the Ukraine, Gogol was in many respects the founder of modern Russian literature. His stories of rural life collected under...
Victory over the Turks part 34
“What in the world is this disease which has attacked my breathing? for I should like to take a deep, full breath and get...
Victory over the Turks part 35
But, however that was, the Emperor was in a very bad state; for not even for a moment could he draw breath freely. He...
Victory over the Turks part 36
For during this oppression he found a little refreshment in being moved, and the Empress contrived that he should have it continually, for she...
Victory over the Turks part 37
For the future all our outlook was in confusion and tempesttossed, our normal course of life was disturbed, and fear and danger hovered together...
Victory over the Turks part 38
For Mary, acting like another Mary, though not sitting at his feet then, as the other did on that occasion, but up by his...
St. John`s Eve part 2
My grandfather (the kingdom of heaven be his! may he eat only wheaten rolls and poppy-seed cakes with honey, in the other world!) Could...
St. John`s Eve part 3
These people laugh at everything you tell them. Along comes one of them and doesn`t believe in witches! Yes, glory to God that I...
Victory over the Turks part 30
X However all the members of the holy synod and the chief monks, as well as the patriarch of that time, Nicholas, decreed that...
