Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a …

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined the …

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy’s works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak’s …

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak(1890-1960) is one of Russia’s greatest post-revolutionary poets. He was born into a prominent Jewish family of artist Leonid Pasternak and pianist Rozaliya Kaufman, …

Boris Pasternak was a great Russian poet, the author of the novel Doctor Zhivago, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. The son of the artist Leonid Pasternak and his wife Rosalia, a …

Russian poet, whose novel, Doctor Zhivago, brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Pasternak had to decline the honour because of protests in his home country. The novel was banned …

Oct 23, 2017 · Fifty-nine years ago today, Russian author Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago," was awarded the Nobel Prize. The book took a twisted and dangerous path to publication in a …

Russian poet and writer. Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow to a highly educated family, a son of the famous Jewish painter and professor Leonid Pasternak. He studied music and law, but graduated …

Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak was highly regarded in his native Russia as one of the country’s greatest post-revolutionary poets. He did not gain worldwide acclaim, however, until his only novel, Doctor …

Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. But Soviet authorities declared him a "traitor" and attacked him with a campaign of persecution, terrorizing Pasternak up until his death in …