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The ground to the right along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers was broken and hilly. Between the hollows the villages of Bezubova and Zakharino showed in the distance. On the left the ground was more level; there were fields of grain, and the smoking ruins of Semenovsk, which had been burned down, could be seen.
To her mind, no one had such a wonderful voice, no one could pronounce so nicely, 'I had the hon-our, or, 'I am most de-lighted. Insarov did not come to the Stahovs, but Elena saw him once in secret in a little copse by the Moskva river, where she arranged to meet him. They hardly had time to say more than a few words to each other.
The young men went down to the river Moskva and walked along its bank. There was a breath of freshness from the water, and the soft plash of tiny waves caressed the ear. 'I would have another bathe, said Shubin, 'only I'm afraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it.
But the air is calm; and as the day exhilarates you generally, it makes you walk more briskly than you are in the habit of doing in your shouba of cloth, wadding, and fur; and the result is, you are so warm and so surrounded by sunshine, that, but for seeing the cold, you might fancy yourself on the shores of the Mediterranean instead of on the banks of the Moskva, which is now a long, shiny, serpent-like path of ice.
On one of the hottest days of the summer of 1853, in the shade of a tall lime-tree on the bank of the river Moskva, not far from Kuntsovo, two young men were lying on the grass.
A quarter of a century after the Easter Eve above mentioned or, to be quite accurate, on the 26th of May, 1896 I again find myself in the Kremlin on the occasion of a great religious ceremony a ceremony which shows that "the White-stone City" on the Moskva is still in some respects the capital of Holy Russia.
Tell my judge of Moscow the court judge to have the Lithuanian and the interpreter burned alive on the Moskvá burn them, dost thou hear? that others may not think of such deeds. A jeu de mots impossible to be rendered in English; Kourítza, in Russian, is a 'hen." T.B.S.
Our right flank is over there" he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground "That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones. The left flank..." here the officer paused.
While we are narrating these interesting facts relating to the material greatness of Russia, we are also approaching its ancient capital. It stands upon a vast plain through which winds the Moskva River, from which the city derives its name.
The officer pounced on the soldiers who were in the shops, but at that moment fearful screams reached them from the huge crowd on the Moskva bridge and the officer ran out into the square. "What is it? What is it?" he asked, but his comrade was already galloping off past Vasili the Beatified in the direction from which the screams came. The officer mounted his horse and rode after him.
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