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Updated: June 23, 2025
I searched the list in vain for the names of such prominent leaders of the Bolshevist movement as Bucharin, Rakovsky, Miliutin, Raskolnikov, Shliapnikov, Latzis, Rykov, Stalin, Krestinsky, Bonch-Brouyevich, Dybenko, Dzerzhinsky, Krylenko, Gorky, Andreyeva, Nogin, Platakov, Kalinin, Boky, and many others less well known.
Kalinin seated himself on his haunches under the overhanging rim of the stone, and said as he snapped some twigs in half: "This is where we ought to have been sitting whilst the rain was coming down." "And so say I," I rejoined. "But pray continue your story." "Yes, when you have put a match to the fire."
From those walls Kalinin picked a bit of charcoal with finger and thumb, saying: "It was shepherds that fired the place. See where they dragged in hay and dead leaves! A shepherd's fife hereabouts must be a truly glorious one!" Lastly, clasping his head as though he were about to fall asleep, he sank his chin between his knees, and relapsed into silence.
Once more from the black cloud-masses, heaven belched a fiery dart which caused the sea to scintillate with blue sapphires in response, and, seemingly, to recoil from the shore as the earth shook, and the mountain defiles emitted a gigantic scrunching sound of their rock-hewn jaws. "Oh Holy One! Oh Holy One! Oh Holy One!" screamed Kalinin as he dived into the bushes.
Whereafter, further withdrawing his spare frame under the stone, so that he might stretch himself at full length, Kalinin continued: "I walked to the pantry quietly enough, though my legs were tottering beneath me, and I had a cold sensation in my breast.
"And, sure enough, he then and there composed the piece about 'the wondrous Valentina. What a tender thing it is, and how full of understanding! My God, my God!" And, with a thoughtful shake of his bead, Kalinin raised his boyish eyes towards the blue patches in the rain-washed sky.
"And why will they not?" Kalinin paused, stared at me, smiled condescendingly, and, finally, said: "What a dullard you are to ask about such simple things! Were you never given any sort of an education? Surely by this time you ought to be able to understand something?"
The occasion was a harassing but bracing one, for as the fine bands of rain beat upon our faces, our bodies felt filled with a heady vigour of a kind to fit us to run indefinitely at all events to run until this storm of rain and thunder should be outpaced, and clear weather be reached again. Suddenly Kalinin shouted: "Stop! Look!"
Presently, the wind began to whistle less loudly, as though now it felt satisfied at having driven so much productive rain into the ground, and washed clean the mountain tops, and loosened the stony soil. "U-oh! U-oh!" hooted a grey mountain owl just over our heads. "Why, surely it believes the time to be night!" Kalinin commented in a whisper. "U-oh!
The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
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