HSE Publishing House

The collection features studies of the different aspects of biography and work of Boris Pasternak, as well as the relevance of his work to his epoch, his contemporaries, and forerunners. The readers are presented with interpretations of verses, not well-known facts of poet’s biography and the reflection of Pasternak’s relations with Tsvetaeva, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, and Mandelshtam in literary work is revealed.

Addressed to philologists and historians of Russian culture, as well as everyone interested in the 20th century Russian poetry as personified in one of its most prominent figures, Boris Pasternak.