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10/02/1890 Novelist and poet Boris Pasternak is born

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"Doctor Zhivago": Boris Pasternak

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I funerali di Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. He was born in Moscow in 1890 into a wealthy assimilated Jewish family.