Destiny is something foreordained - like 'your destiny is to kill Volandemort' (больше предназначение, нежели судьба).they are glad Dasha hasn’t shared theirdestinyfate
Must he be a gray-bearded aged venerable Gandalf? Kolkhoz chiefs were usually men in mid-forties (fifties at the most) quite robust and vigorous. Nearly all of them were the members of the Party (important detail - not the leaders of the local Party cell - this position was usually occupied by someone else).to a gray-bearded aged man
Robert may correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds a bit impolite. 'Who is he?' would be more preferrable.‘Who is it?’ he asked.
Here, you can leave it as it is, but I think Ann should use some Russian words now and then. Say 'pravlenye' instead and let Peter ask about it.administrative building
Russian names ending with -off came from French (they needed to stress the ending consonant. And in writing only. English speakers do not need it). You don't need to stress pronunciation here, because in English both written names and said end with -ov, not -off.Savinoff
Come on, they're the same things. Even an American can see that ;Dthe closest English equivalent for his name is Peter
I just need a clarification - was it Ann who sensed that? What I mean - if you narrate from Peter's standpoint it should be Peter who would feel this. And if Peter noticed that it was indeed Ann who sensed it you should tell the readers how exactly he knew this.Ann said while they were striding towards the building virtually sensing heads turned in their direction
And the other thing - how can anybody 'virtually' sense anything?
Red tablecloth! There must be a red tablecloth on the table! And a decanter!Theycameentered the house (which Ann called 'pravleniye') into a large room with a big table in the center and a handful of chairs around it.
Here - look at the man in the center. He definitely doesn't look like Gandalf.
An amazing lack of curiosity again! How on Earth did you get here, Peter?‘What are you going to do now, Peter?’
It really should be Ann's concern. And Ann's proposal is really very VERY unbecoming for a village girl in 1941. And 'Gandalf' should object violently. Well, again, this is your story.‘But…what will people say?’
Oh, I'm too lazy to re-read. Are you sure it was dark when they came in?They went out of the building when the darkness started todawnfade
It's a fiction, of course, but her mom simply couldn't work there 'for a long time'. Great Britain officially acknowledged USSR in 1924. (16 years before the current events). Ann is twenty-something so she must have been born not long before that (1915-1919). Even if her mom miraculously happenned to work in UK (which is very doubtful) Ann should have spent her childhood in London. And more - even if somehow Ann hasn't been raised by her mother (say, she was left on her grandma) it seems very doubtful that a daughter of a dilpomatic official ended up in a Belorussian village as a simple teacher. No, I mean, really.she had worked as a consular assistant in Great Britain for a long time before she retired
Alternatively, her mom could have been working in UK BEFORE the revolution. But this automatically makes Ann the member of the old-regime nobility. Her ma simply would not have returned to bolshevik's Russia from Britain after 1917.
Oh, a question of British style. British English required saying 'I/we shall' instead of 'I/we will' back then.
??? Who has what on her fingertips? And generally what are you trying to say here?‘And that’s whyyou speak so good Englishyour English is so good, I assume?’
‘Yes exactly, she has it on her fingertips.’
The house resembled the Nikolai’s one
(I'm not very sure about that. Ask Robert).
Peterfelt likeexperienced a deja vu'I entered' is a bit official. And Ann did not belong to the generation of SMS writers. She would say university (In fact she woudn't even say "Универ" in Russia.thenI enteredthe University
Oh, the other thing - there was ONLY ONE University in Moscow.
So, her ambassadorial parents were out of job... All things considered - they WERE serving the old regime.When I was akidchild and my parents were out for job I used to teach my little Kate how to count and write.
‘The talkThis conversation reminded me of my little sister,’ she said.'During the war' doesn't sound righ somehow. Of course Peter might know that the war will last for a long time, but that 'during' implies they simply wait it out like a rain or a snowstorm.What are you going to be doing hereduringin the middle of the war?’
I really hopethe Germans won’t treat us very badthe Red Army will soon drive them out!In that previous life of his he had no one who would truly love himA question of personal preferrence I think, but let's ask Robert about this.the new life was trying to give him everything hehadn’t haddid not have back then
either 'if we are doomed we will die together' or 'if we have to die we will die together'.if we are doomed to die we will die together
Man, you're in the middle of the World War 2, you've just killed a man with a knife, cold-bloodily sliced his throat for the first time in your life and yet you feel happy. You're a maniac, Peter!I didn’t feel so true and so happy I’m feeling now
Which happenned only the day before yesterday, as I recall‘I love you too,’ her faint smile seemed to him glimmering brighter than the sun, ‘and I feel like I’ve loved you since the first day we met.
O tempora, o mores!
I'll continue later. Please, consider removing so vast inconsitencies from the plot. Pleasepleaseplease.
Here, I found some pics you may find useful (note the radios, and also the fact that all women have their heads covered).