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  • In Ekaterinburg, the local Bolsheviks, led by Yakov Yurovsky, feared that the family might be liberated by advancing monarchist forces.

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  • And so does John, Bob, Alice, Yakov, Boris and everyone else in town.

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  • The settlement paves the way for the Congregation Mischknois Lavier Yakov, a religious congregation of Hasidic Jews, to construct a new school and student housing on a 19-acre plot it purchased in 2001.

    Zoning Lawsuit Settled Over Orthodox School Shelly Banjo 2011

  • But the man who called himself Yakov Lozovsky died like a scorpion, spinning and stabbing the water.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • The plate of the lock was brass, unscratched, absolutely new, necessitating a new combination that Yakov apparently had trouble remembering.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances.

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  • In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances.

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  • As soon as Yakov got back to the farmhouse, he sketched an outline of the dacha, all the access points, the windows and doors and chimney, driveway, dock, fields of vision.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • The man who called himself Yakov Lozovsky swam across the pond to the least defended side of the dacha.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

  • He remembered Yakov riding a battered station wagon and waving a reward poster for Maya.

    Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

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