Boris Leonidovitch Pasternak

Background

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovitch was born on February 11, 1890 in Moscow, Russia. Son of Leonid Ossipovitch and Rosalia Issidorovra (Kaufman) Pasternak.

Education

Graduated from the University Moscow, 1913. Student of University Marburg (Germany), summer 1913. 1 son by former marriage, Eugen.

Career

1 son, Leonid. Writer, since 1913. Author: (verse) Twin on the Clouds, 1917, Above the Barrier, 1917, My Other Life, 1922, Trends and Variations, 1923, The Year, 1925, Lieutenant Schmidt, 1926, The Poetry of Boris Pasternak, 1959. (short stories) The Second Girth, 1930, Terrestorial Soace, 1945.

(autobiography) Safe Conduct.

(novel) Doctor Zhivago (Nobel prize in literature 1958), 1956. Poems (collection, translations Eugene M. Kayden), 1959.

(poetical translations in Russian): Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, Henry the Fourth, also Goethe’s Faust, Schiller, Maria Stuart. Translator complete book of Georgian poetry, also Petöfi’s lyrics.

Address: Peredelkino, near Moscow, United States.S.R.

Achievements

• Boris Leonidovitch Pasternak has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married second, Zenaids Ernmezeva.

Father:

Leonid Ossipovitch Pasternak

Mother:

Rosalia Issidorovra (Kaufman) Pasternak

Spouse:

Zenaids Ernmezeva