Thread: в... толпе люди; 'in the.. crowd of people' or 'in the.. crowd (there were) people?

" He knew that behind his back a hail of bronze coins and dates was showering the platform, that people in the whooping crowd, elbowing each other aside, were climbing on to shoulders to see a miracle with their own eyes--a man already in the arms of death and torn from their grasp!"


http://www.masterandmargarita.eu/est...ita_glenny.pdf

Thanks maxmixiv, I think I generally need to slowly re-read, and then parse any sentences that I can't easily understand. Then check again, THEN post on here...