Simbirsk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At Simbirsk the wife of a school principal gave birth to Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, a pale, sickly, bright-eyed child.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born 94 years ago in a comfortable frame house in the small, sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also made a seat for himself and his wife in the village of Choorassovo, fifty versts from Simbirsk; this was a separate property of 350 serfs which his wife had inherited from her mother.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
I arrived at Simbirsk during the night, where I was to stay twenty-four hours, that Savéliitch might do sundry commissions entrusted to him.
From The Daughter of the Commandant by Milne-Home, Mary Pamela
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