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- ↑ Julie Kavanagh (2011). Nureyev: The Life. Random House. p. 51. ISBN 9780307807342 . Retrieved March 27, 2014.
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- ↑ Christopher Barnes (2004). Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780521520737 . Retrieved March 27, 2014.
The main themes of the meeting were the discussion of the state of Byelorussian and Bakshirian literature..
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