The great writer, publicist and poet Boris Leonidovich Pasternak lived a long life, but left little behind him. He could not spend much time on creativity. This influenced the number of publications that he had. There is also a little-known side of the poet's life - his personal life.
1.Parents of Boris Leonidovich were famous artists: dad was an academician of painting, and mom was a pianist.
2. Pasternak's father had 2 names: Isaac and Abram.
3.Pasternak's mother had to give up her career as a pianist, because she was engaged in raising 4 children.
4. Often Rachmaninov, Levitan and Serov visited the Pasternak family.
5. Due to the influence of his mother, until the age of 6, Boris Pasternak considered himself a musician.
6. Boris Pasternak wrote 2 preludes and a sonata in B minor for piano.
7.Pasternak's dad treated children with severity. When Boris grew up, his father did not even help him financially, believing that his son was an adult and was capable of supporting himself.
8. The first collection of poems by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was published in 1914.
9. For 2 years of his life, Pasternak had to serve as a teacher in a wealthy family.
10.Pasternak's parents, not accepting Soviet power, moved to live in Berlin, and the poet could only correspond with them.
11. Artist Evgenia Lurie became the first wife of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, and their happiness was to be eternal.
12. Due to the fact that Pasternak's first wife could not cope with household chores, shifting them to her husband, and it was more difficult for the writer to realize his creative potential, their love was destroyed.
13. Zinaida Neuhaus was considered the second muse of the writer. She reminded him of his mother.
14. The cycle of poems "The Second Birth" was dedicated to Pasternak Zinaida Neuhaus.
15. Olga Ivinskaya, who worked in Novy Mir as a junior literary collaborator, was the third muse of the poet.
16. The poet's passion for Olga flared up at the age of 56.
17. Because Ivinskaya had a relationship with Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, she was sent to a camp for 5 years.
18. The best work of Pasternak, according to the author himself, is "Doctor Zhivago".
19. At the age of 8, the future poet fell from his horse and he was lucky that only his leg was injured. He could die.
20. In the upbringing of Pasternak, his mother spoiled him, and his father insisted on independence.
21. Pasternak had a "love affair in letters" with Marina Tsvetaeva.
22.During 6 years of his life, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak learned the basics of music.
23. Pasternak was also fond of philosophy.
24 Thanks to the poetry of M.Yu. Lermontov, Pasternak developed a love for Georgia, which found its own reflection in "Memory of the Demon".
25. Pasternak collected memorabilia about the archaeological achievements of Georgia, about the culture and origins of the Georgian language.
26. In 1959, on the eve of his own death, Boris Leonidovich visited Georgia for the last time.
27. After writing the novel "Doctor Zhivago" the writer finally broke with Soviet literature.
28. For the first time the novel "Doctor Zhivago" was filmed in 1959 in Brazil.
29. An asteroid was named after Pasternak in 1980.
30.The poem "No one will be in the house", written by the poet in 1931, was first dubbed in 1976. The audience heard him in the film "Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath".
31. Only from the beginning of the 90s, Pasternak's work was introduced into the school curriculum for study.
32. In 2015, Russia issued stamps in honor of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak.
33. Pasternak was born into a Jewish family.
34. Parsnip fell from a horse on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
35. Boris Leonidovich played an active role in the life of his friend Anna Akhmatova and her family.
36.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, despite his merits in the field of literature, remained in disgrace with the government.
37. In 1984, the authorities through the courts took away from Pasternak's relatives his dacha in Peredelkino. She was transferred to the ownership of the state.
38. Before dying, Pasternak managed to confess to the priest.
39. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak died at the age of 71.
40. From his first marriage, Pasternak had a son, Zhenya.
41 Boris Leonidovich became known as a translator no less than as a poet.
42. Pasternak's translations are included in the golden fund of foreign literature.
43. The small poems of this writer have a great philosophical meaning.
44 Pasternak's first wife, Evgenia, was driven crazy by his correspondence with Marina Tsvetaeva.
45. In the second marriage, Pasternak had a son, Leonid.
46. Pasternak's second wife Olga was his unofficial secretary.
47 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak collaborated with the best Moscow publishing houses throughout his life.
48. Pasternak's parents were considered followers of Judaism, and their son later became a Christian.
49.During the Great Patriotic War, Pasternak dreamed of going to the front, but due to the presence of childhood trauma, doctors refused him.
50. Pasternak never betrayed his wives.
51 In the family, the future poet was the firstborn, and after him three more children were born.
52. In childhood, Scriabin was a great authority for Pasternak.
53.Sergey Yesenin did not like the work of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, and therefore, due to disagreements, they had a fight.
54. When Pasternak went to the International Congress of Writers in Paris in 1935, he had a nervous breakdown there.
55 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak in 1935 sent Stalin a book with translations of the lyrics of Georgian writers as a token of gratitude for the release of her husband and son Akhmatova.
56. Translations for Pasternak were self-sufficient works.
57. At the end of his life, Pasternak was tormented by a disease associated with stomach metastases.
58.The writer was accused of espionage in favor of British intelligence.
59. Pasternak was not personally awarded the Nobel Prize, but only after the death of his son.
60. Parsnip is considered both a rebel and a lover to “go with the flow”.
61. The writer gained popularity not only on the territory of Russia, but also abroad.
62. Pasternak studied at the same gymnasium as Mayakovsky.
They tried to declare Boris Leonidovich Pasternak "the best Soviet poet".
64. Pasternak was also considered the author of book illustrations.
65. Over the years of his life, Pasternak even began to do business. To do this, he opened a soda factory in Perm, but was defeated in this matter.
66. Joseph Stalin treated this poet favorably.
67. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak died of lung cancer.
68. Pasternak called his first wife a mermaid and an angel in his letters.
69. Pasternak declared his love to his second wife on the train on the way back to Moscow.
70. Zinaida, who was Pasternak's second wife, considered herself a terrible woman.
71. Only after 2 years of meeting Pasternak and Zinaida got married, and before that, because of the housing problem, they had to wander around the corners of friends and comrades.
72. Pasternak's son Leonid was born on New Year's Eve and was named after his grandfather.
73. Pasternak's third wife, Olga, was pregnant with him, but in the end, due to constant interrogations and nerves, she lost her child.
74. At the end of his life, Pasternak could not move and his wife Olga took care of him.
75 The first wife of Boris Leonidovich turned out to be in psychiatric clinics several times.
76. After the death of Pasternak, his third wife Olga was arrested again, accused of smuggling intentions.
77.The writer is buried at the Peredelkino cemetery.
78. The monument to Pasternak's grave was created by Sarah Lebedeva.
79. Mom Boris Leonidovich Pasternak studied with A. Rubinstein.
80.Boris took the ability to live by one art from his mother.
81.The writer, through joint efforts with Nikolai Aseev and Sergei Bobrov, was able to create a group of "moderate futurists", which was named "Centrifuge".
82. While studying at the University of Marburg, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak listened to lectures by the philosopher Hermann Cohen.
83. With his women, Pasternak has always been caring, gentle and patient.
84.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak possessed a strong instinct for self-preservation.
85. Pasternak named his firstborn by the name of his wife.
86. Because of a feeling of guilt before his third wife, Pasternak bequeathed her royalties for his foreign publications.
87. The poet had a heart attack.
88.After the death of Pasternak, Ivinskaya was able to publish a small edition with memories of her beloved.
89. The first love of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was Ida Vysotskaya, who did not reciprocate his feelings.
90 Pasternak took his second wife away from his friend.
91. The first collection of Pasternak is "The Twin in the Clouds".
92.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak translated the works of Goethe, Keats, Shelley, Petofi, Verlaine.
93. Pasternak was a student of the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Moscow University.
94 In 1960, the poet died.
95. He planned to transfer the money that Pasternak would have received for the Nobel Prize to the Peace Defense Committee, but he had to refuse the prize under pressure.
96. The play "Blind Beauty", on which the writer worked, remained unfinished.
97. Pasternak helped many people financially. This list also included the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva.
98. In 1932 this writer organized an evening of Georgian poetry in Moscow.
99.During 10 years of his life, Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago" was created.
100.Disease at the end of his life confined Pasternak to bed.
