Anna Karenina vocabulary

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9 [geography] words
Menton, France
Lille
Volga
Thule
Ostend
Penza
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Volga

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Definition:
The longest river in Europe and Russia's main waterway

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map: Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman (inside front cover). Simon & Schuster
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all the people living along the Volga, where those placards invite one to go,

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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“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.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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Michael closed the door. He sank onto the couch and turned away from the blood on the Volga, the drowned men of the Atlantic, the sand-blinded troops of Egypt, from the rumors of rubber and the flames in France and the restrictions on roast beef, to the sporting page.

Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.221 (1948)
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