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A Moving Presentation Of The Life And Work Of The Great Russian Author Of "Doctor Zhivago" And More "Based On The Writings Of Boris Pasternak And The Memories Of Those Close To Him" Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1989, 90 Minutes.) #BorisPasternak #Poets #Novelists #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeLaureates #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeLaureatesForLiterature #DoctorZhivago #Poetry #RussianPoetry #Literature #RussianLiterature #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Boris Pasternak, Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate, best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (February 10 (O.S. January 29) - May 30, 1960) was born Boris Leonidovich Pasternak in Moscow, Russian Empire. His first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderon de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Outside Russia, Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957 and distributed with the help of the CIA in the rest of Europe. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his name in 1988. Boris Pasternak died in the evening of May 30, 1960 of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino. He first summoned his sons, and in their presence said, "Who will suffer most because of my death? Who will suffer most? Only Oliusha will, and I haven't had time to do anything for her. The worst thing is that she will suffer." Pasternak's last words were, "I can't hear very well. And there's a mist in front of my eyes. But it will go away, won't it? Don't forget to open the window tomorrow." Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites. Later, in the strictest secrecy, a Russian Orthodox funeral liturgy, or Panikhida, was offered in the family's dacha.