Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich ( 1890 – 1960 ),Russian poet and prose writer, born in Moscow. In his youth he became involved with the Russian Futurist poets and published his first verse collection A Twin in the Clouds ( 1914 ). A second volume, Above the Barriers, appeared in 1917 , but it was his third collection, My Sister Life (the poems of 1917 , pub. 1922 ), which established his reputation. It was followed by a number of important publications, the collection Themes and Variations ( 1923 ), a collection of Stories ( 1925 ), the long poems The Year 1905 and Lieutenant Shmidt (both 1927 ), and Spektorsky ( 1931 ). In 1931 he also published his first autobiography A Safe Conduct, followed by another major verse collection Second Birth ( 1932 ), associated with his meeting with his second wife, Zinaida Neigauz . In the 1930s Pasternak's position...
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