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- ↑ The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, pages 753-754.
- ↑ Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921-1960, translated by Nicholas Pasternak Slater. Hoover Press, 2011, page 107.
- ↑ At His Side, page 83.
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