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Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
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culture · Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960) · writer · poet · translator · novelist · playwright · pianist · prose writer · translator of William Shakespeare · screenwriter · composer · also Boris Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Pasternak
Born 10 February 1890 · Died 30 May 1960 · Q41223
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2026· 2 entries
“Everything is finished now. They”
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Remembering Boris Pasternak
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2024· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Boris Pasternak
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2015· 1 entry
As part of the series "125th Birth Anniversary of Boris Pasternak", Maldives issued a miniature sheet depicting Boris Pasternak
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2012· 1 entry
A monument to Boris Pasternak was erected in the district center of Muchkapsky by Z
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2009· 1 entry
On the City Day in Perm the first Russian monument to Pasternak was erected in the square near the Opera Theater (sculptor: Elena Munc)
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2008· 1 entry
A museum was opened in Vsevolodo-Vilva in the house where the budding poet lived from January to June 1916
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2002· 1 entry
The novel was adapted as a television miniseries
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1990· 2 entries
As part of the series "Nobel Prize Winners", the USSR and Sweden ("Nobel Prize Winners – Literature") issued stamps depicting Boris Pasternak
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The year of the poet's 100th anniversary, the Pasternak Museum opened its doors in Chistopol, in the house where the poet evacuated to during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1943), and in Peredelkino, where he lived for ma
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1989· 1 entry
Pasternak's son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf
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1988· 1 entry
After decades of circulating in Samizdat, Doctor Zhivago was serialized in the literary journal Novy Mir
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1986· 1 entry
The House-Museum of Boris Pasternak was founded (the first house-museum in the USSR)
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1980· 1 entry
An asteroid was named 3508 Pasternak after Boris Pasternak
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1978· 1 entry
Her memoirs were smuggled abroad and published in Paris
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1960· 6 entries
Died 1960-05-30.
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“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”
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“Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.”
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“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
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“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...”
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“The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.”
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1958· 7 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.
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At the plenum of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, dedicated to the Komsomol's fortieth anniversary, its head, Vladimir Semichastny, attacked Pasternak before an audience of 14,000 people, including Kh
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1958).
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Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for Doctor Zhivago (1958).
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“s contribution to Russian lyric poetry and for his role in”
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“She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a gruelling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial. I owe my life, and the fact that they did not touch me in those years, to her heroism and endurance.”
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An event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize
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1957· 2 entries
As part of a CIA operation to undermine the Soviet Union in the eyes of its citizens
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Feltrinelli announced that the novel would be published by his company
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1956· 2 entries
Which refused publication due to its rejection of socialist realism
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“Translating Shakespeare is a task which takes time and effort. Once it is undertaken, it is best to divide it into sections long enough for the work to not get stale and to complete one section each day. In thus daily progressing through the text, the translator finds himself reliving the circumstances of the author. Day by day, he reproduces his actions and he is drawn into some of his secrets, not in theory, but practically, by experience.”
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1948· 1 entry
Pasternak advised Ivinskaya to resign her job at Novy Mir, which was becoming extremely difficult due to their relationship
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1946· 1 entry
“If, in a bad dream, we had seen all the horrors in store for us after the war, we should not have been sorry to see Stalin fall, together with Hitler. Then, an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.”
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1943· 1 entry
Pasternak was finally granted permission to visit the soldiers at the front
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1942· 1 entry
“I am completely opposed to contemporary ideas about translation. The work of Lozinski, Radlova, Marshak, and Chukovski is alien to me, and seems artificial, soulless, and lacking in depth. I share the nineteenth-century view of translation as a literary exercise demanding insight of a higher kind than that provided by a merely philological approach.”
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1932· 1 entry
Pasternak fell in love with Zinaida Neuhaus, the wife of the Russian pianist Heinrich Neuhaus
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1922· 2 entries
Pasternak married Evgeniya Lurye (Евгения Лурье), a student at the Art Institute
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Pasternak's My Sister, Life revolutionised Russian poetry
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1919· 1 entry
As he was on the way to sell some valuable books from his library in order to buy bread
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1917· 2 entries
Inspired the poems in his third and first major book, My Sister, Life
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Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language
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1914· 1 entry
Published a satirical article in Rukonog, which attacked the jealous leader of the "Mezzanine of Poetry", Vadim Shershenevich, who was criticizing Lirika and the Ego-Futurists because Shershenevich himself was barred
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1913· 1 entry
Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1913).
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1912· 2 entries
Studied at Imperial Moscow University (1912).
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Studied at University of Marburg (1912–1912).
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1910· 3 entries
At the age of twenty, to study philosophy in Marburg University
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Pasternak was reunited with his cousin Olga Freidenberg (1890–1955)
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Abruptly left for the University of Marburg in Germany, where he studied under neo-Kantian philosophers Hermann Cohen, Nicolai Hartmann, and Paul Natorp
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1908· 2 entries
Friendly but with different politics, never to see each other again
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Studied at Moscow State University, Faculty of Law (1908).
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-02-10.
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