Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, and Other Stories

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Marion Boyars, 1985 - Fiction - 207 pages
Russian writer Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974) tells stories with humor and humanity, depicting the struggles and triumphs of people who migrated, dispossesed and powerless, from the country to the city. "Wonderfully vivid, often hilarious."--The Guardi

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Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, and Other Stories
Vasiliĭ Shukshin
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Vasiliĭ Shukshin
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accordion Andrei ARISTARCH SNUB-NOSE ARISTARCH VERA ARISTARCH Arkasha asked Baba Yaga Baba Yaga's daughter BALDY VERA BALDY bath-house better certificate cossack course d'you think dance drink Efim elegant devil everything exclaimed eyes feel fool Georgi GINGER PAUNCHY GINGER SNUB-NOSE Gorinich hands head hetman HONEST JOE ARISTARCH HONEST JOE PAUNCHY Ilya Ilya Muromets Ivan JOE PAUNCHY HONEST JOE VERA HONEST Kolka kopeks laughed Listen live look Maya Milka moustache never Neverlaugh Nikolay Oblomov PAUNCHY ARISTARCH PAUNCHY PAUNCHY BALDY PAUNCHY GINGER PAUNCHY HONEST JOE Pause Philip Popov prison roubles round rubber stamp Sanya sentry shouted Shukshin shut Sinelnikov sing smile SNUB-NOSE ARISTARCH SNUB-NOSE PAUNCHY Sonya sort Sound of door Spontaneous combustion staring Stefan Stenka Razin stupid suddenly talk tell There's thing thought Vaganov Vanka Vanya village Vladivostok vodka What's wife Wise Yegor Yevgeny Yevtushenko Zlatoust

About the author (1985)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus on July 18, 1933, in Zima Junction, a remote lumber station on the trans-Siberian Railway in the Irkutsk region of Siberia. He became a poet whose work inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight against Stalinism during the Cold War. His poems included Zima Junction, My Beloved Will Come, Stalin's Heirs, Babi Yar, and Russian Tanks in Prague. He also wrote two novels including Don't Die Before You're Dead. He died on April 1, 2017 at the age of 83.

Bibliographic information

TitleRoubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, and Other Stories
AuthorВасилий Шукшин
ContributorYevgeny Yevtushenko
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherMarion Boyars, 1985
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedNov 26, 2009
ISBN0714529591, 9780714529592
Length207 pages
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