Vlas Mikhaĭlovich Doroshevich, The Way of the Cross — Along the Kief Road (1916)
“ Doves in hundreds circle over the fields and bathe in the transparent atmosphere, in the blue of the brilliant cloudless sky. They turn, and the whole flock of birds glimmers and trembles white in the sunlight. ”
Vlas Mikhaĭlovich Doroshevich, The Way of the Cross — Along the Kief Road (1916)
“ In the province of Mogilef, the potato country, as the farmers call it, hundreds of women are working in long rows hurriedly digging up potatoes. —How the price for women's labour has gone up—says a peasant in one of the villages. They're wanted on the big farms. The potatoes must be dug, quickly, hurriedly, before the refugees flood over the ground. ”
