Sestra

On several occasions their two cars attracted fire from German tanks, and as they crossed the frozen River Sestra one was hit by machine-gun fire.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

I raided his mines at Sestra, and I slew the miners in such amusing fashion that no others ever came to work the copper there.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

It was Basti who destroyed your father's copper-mines at Sestra and murdered the engineers, and their slave workers.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Nevertheless, I would challenge Professor Kline's above quoted statement, for it implies that Brodsky's achievement to date can stand comparison with Akhmatova's by the time she published her Anno Domini MCMXXI (her third volume), with Pasternak in Sestra moia zhizn '(My Sister Life), with Tsvetayeva's Lebedinyi stan (Swans' Camp) and other poetry of the revolutionary years, and with Mandelstam's wonderful Tristia.

Brodsky's Poetry Struve, Gleb 1973

With Sestra moya zhizn (My Sister Life), 1922, and Temy i variatsii (Themes and Variations), 1923, the latter marked by an extreme, though sober style, Pasternak first gained a place as

Boris Pasternak - Biography 1958