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With glass and tinsel, hung above his head. Nadezhda was the child of Nikolai, The village pope: true Russia's daughter she, Broad-faced and square of shoulder, with her eyes All bright with health, and cheeks as fresh in bloom As rhododendron in the Caucasus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.