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The Volga
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  • "The Abbot Pafnute lived in the fourteenth century," began the prince; "he was in charge of one of the monasteries on the Volga, about where our present Kostroma government lies.†  (source)
  • [Hiccups] Lovely weather....[Declaims] My brother, my suffering brother....Come out on the Volga, you whose groans ...[To VARYA] Mademoiselle, please give a hungry Russian thirty copecks.... [VARYA screams, frightened.†  (source)
  • Magnificent sturgeons, nine to ten meters long and extremely fast, banged their powerful tails against the glass of our panels, showing bluish backs with small brown spots; they resemble sharks, without equaling their strength, and are encountered in every sea; in the spring they delight in swimming up the great rivers, fighting the currents of the Volga, Danube, Po, Rhine, Loire, and Oder, while feeding on herring, mackerel, salmon, and codfish; although they belong to the class of cartilaginous fish, they rate as a delicacy; they're eaten fresh, dried, marinated, or salt—preserved, and in olden times they were borne in triumph to the table of the Roman epicure Lucullus.†  (source)
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  • "Sterlets," said Chateau-Renaud, "are only found in the Volga."†  (source)
  • "It's so with me and Pyotr, and the coachman, Fyodor, and that merchant, and all the people living along the Volga, where those placards invite one to go, and everywhere and always," she thought when she had driven under the low-pitched roof of the Nizhigorod station, and the porters ran to meet her.†  (source)
  • Padorin did not miss the view, though he had won his spurs commanding river gunboats forty years before, running supplies across the Volga into Stalingrad.†  (source)
  • The next day they were supposed to travel south to a provincial town on the Volga where Uncle Nikolai worked for the publisher of the local progressive newspaper.†  (source)
  • Exactly; one comes from the Volga, and the other from Lake Fusaro.†  (source)
  • "I have found out everything, your excellency: the Rostovs are staying at the merchant Bronnikov's house, in the Square not far from here, right above the Volga," said the courier.†  (source)
  • When Nikolai Nikolaievich had moved from his retreat on the Volga to Petersburg he had left Yura in Moscow, where he had many relatives-the Vedeniapins, the Ostromyslenskys, the Selia-vins, the Mikhaelises, the Sventitskys, and the Gromekos.†  (source)
  • Then he had eaten some without saying a word more; Danglars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.†  (source)
  • He went down the Volga on a steamer to Samara, then walked another three hundred miles on foot, and at last reached the place.†  (source)
  • Just as Pahom was going to ask, "Have you been here long?" he saw that it was not the dealer, but the peasant who had come up from the Volga, long ago, to Pahom's old home.†  (source)
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