A biography of Boris Pasternak, recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Boris Pasternak, recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Moscow, Russia. His father, Leonid, was an art professor, and his mother, Rosa Kaufman, was a pianist. He was educated at the University of Moscow and the University of Marburg in Germany. During World War I he worked in a chemical factory.
Pasternak published his first volume of poetry, BLIZNETS V TUCHAKH, when he was 23. He is best known for his 1957 novel, DOKTOR ZIVAGO (DOCTOR ZHIVAGO). It was banned in the Soviet Union, and he was ejected from the Union of Soviet Writers after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in Peredelkino, Russia in 1960.
CHRONOLOGY
1890 He was born in Moscow, Russia. (February 10)
1912 He entered the University of Marburg in Germany.
1913 BLIZNETS V TUCHAKH
1917 POVERH BAR'EROV (OVER THE BARRIERS)
1922 DEVJATSOT PJATYI GO; SESTRA MOYA ZHIZN (MY SISTER-LIFE); He married Evgeniia Vladimirovna Lourie.
1923 TEMY I VARIATSII
1925 RAZZKAZY; DESTVO LIUVERS (THE CHILDHOOD OF LUVES)
1926 LETTENANT SHMIDT
1927 DEVIATSOT PIATYI GOD
1928 VYSOKAIA BOLEZN (SUBLIME MALADY)
1931 OKHRANNAYA GRAMOTA (SAFE CONDUCT); SPEKTORSKII; His marriage to Evgeniia Vladimirovna Lourie ended.
1932 VTOROE ROZHDENIE
1933 STIKHOTVORENIIA V ODOM TOME
1934 POVEST (THE LAST SUMMER); He married Zinaida Nikolaevna Neigauz.
1936 BYSTANDRE
1940 IZBRANNIE PEREVODY
1941 GAMLET PRINTS DATSKII; CHILDHOOD
1943 NA RANNIKH POYEZDAKH (ON EARLY TRAINS); ROMEO I DZHUL'ETTA
1944 ANTONII I KLEOPATRA
1945 THE COLLECTED PROSE WORKS; ZEMNOI PROSTOR; OTELLO, VENETSIIANSKII MAVR
1946 SELECTED POEMS; GRUZINSKIE POETRY
1948 GENRIKH CHETVERTYI; STIKHOTVERENIIA
1949 SELECTED WRITINGS; DOROL' LIR; VIL'IAM SHEKPIR V PEREVODE BORISA PASTERNAKA
1950 FAUST I; VITIAZ IANOSHCH
1951 MAKBET
1957 DOKTOR ZIVAGO (DOCTOR ZHIVAGO)
1958 SAFE CONDUCT, AN EARLY AUTOBIOGRAPH, AND OTHER WORKS; MARIIA STIUART; STIKHI O GRUZII; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1959 KOGDA RAZGULJAJETSJA; THE POETRY OF BORIS PASTERNAK, 1917-1959; POEMS; AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1960 WHEN THE SKY CLEARS; KOGDA RAZGULIAETSIA: POEMS 1955-1959; He died in Peredelkino, Russia. (May 30)
1961 POEMS 1955-1959; SOCHINENIIA; AUTOBIOGRAFICHESKIY OCHERK (I REMEMBER: SKETCH FOR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY)
1962 IN THE INTERLUDE: POEMS 1945-1960
1963 FIFTY POEMS
1964 POEMS 1916-1959
1965 STICHOTVORENIJA I POEMY
1966 ZVEZDNOE NEBO
1967 LETTERS TO GEORGIAN FRIENDS
1969 SLEPAIA KRASAVITSA (THE BLIND BEAUTY); SEVEN POEMS
1971 THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO; LETTERS TO GEORGIAN FRIENDS
1972 TEMY I VARIATSII
1977 COLLECTED SHORT PROSE
1981 PREPISKA S OL'GOI FREIDENBERG (CORRESPONDENCE OF BORIS PASTERNAK AND OLGA FREIDENBERG)
1982 ZHENIA'S CHILDHOOD AND OTHER STORIES; VOZDUSHNYE PUTI
1983 SELECTED POEMS
1984 JUVENILIA B. PASTERNAKA
1985 IBRANNOE; PASTERNAK ON ART AND CREATIVITY
1986 THE VOICE OF PROSE
1990 OB ISKUSSTVE; SELECTED WRITINGS AND LETTERS; ZARABEZHNAIA POEZIIA V PEREVODAKH B.L. PASTERNAKA; POEMS/STIKHOTVERENIIA; SECOND NATURE; PREPISKA BORISA PASTERNAKA; BORIS PASTERNAK OB ISKUSSTVE
1991 IZBRANNYE PROIZVEDENIIA
1993 PIS'MA B.L. PASTERNAKA K ZHENE Z.N. NEIGAUZ-PASTERNAK
1996 BORIS PASTERNAK I SERGIE BOBROV
