2020-02-10 Mon

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was Russian Poet, whose novel, Doctor Zhivago, brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. He was highly regarded in his native Russia as one of the country’s greatest post-revolutionary poets.

Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890, into an artistic family of Russian-Jewish heritage. His father, Leonid, was an art professor. The Pasternak's were part of an exclusive social circle that consisted of Russia’s finest musicians, writers, and painters, including premier novelist Leo Tolstoy and composers Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Anton Rubinstein.

Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. He is also known as the author of Doctor Zhivago, a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War.

In 2015 as part of the series "Nobel Prize Winners," the Albania Post issued stamps depicting Boris Pasternak.

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