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| | The New York Review of Books: Outcast |
 | | Elabuga was sixty miles from Chistopol, which had, since the war, become the center of a close-knit group of poets evacuated from Moscow: Pasternak did not arrive there until October of that year, but his family was already settled there with his friend, a disciple of Mayakovsky, Aseev, and his wife. |
 | | She left her son in her rented room in Elabuga, and took the train to Chistopol. |
 | | But she soon returned home and continued to look for work. |
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