Pasternak artist painting. The brilliant artist Leonid Pasternak, who remained in the shadow of his world-famous son

The fates of children's characters depicted in paintings by famous artists

FROM VALERY KOYFMAN'S MATERIALS

The history of the Pasternak family is a whole epic! First, a little about L. O. Pasternak.
Pasternak Leonid Osipovich (March 22, 1862, Odessa - May 31, 1945, Oxford) - painter, portrait painter.
Born in poor family, the youngest of six children. He showed an early passion for drawing, which met resistance from his parents. He graduated from high school in 1881, while simultaneously attending the Odessa Drawing School. In 1881-82 he studied at the medical faculty of Moscow University, while simultaneously studying painting and drawing.

In 1883 he transferred to the law department of Novorossiysk University (Odessa); Soon he went to Munich, where he spent several semesters at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
In Odessa, Pasternak met with pianist Rosalia Kaufman.
In 1889 they got married and moved to Moscow.
The famous collector P. Tretyakov “from the easel” bought “Letter from the Motherland” from Pasternak; The success of this painting at the next Exhibition of the Itinerants brought the name of Leonid Pasternak into line with the most prominent progressive artists of that time. Repin sent students to him, Nikolai Ge called him his successor.

In 1890, the Pasternaks had a son, Boris, the future poet, and three years later - Alexander, who later became famous architect.

In 1894, Pasternak painted the painting “On the Eve of the Exams,” which in 1900 was purchased from the World Exhibition in Paris for the Luxembourg Museum (now on permanent display at the Orsay Museum in Paris).

In 1898, L. Tolstoy, through his daughter, T. Tolstoy, turned to Pasternak with a request to illustrate it new book"Sunday". The original drawings were exhibited in the Russian pavilion at World's Fair in Paris in 1900.
In 1900, daughter Josephine (1900-1993) was born, and two years later - Lydia (1902-1989).

In 1912, during the stay of the whole family abroad in connection with the treatment of Rosalia Pasternak (on the waters in Kissingen, then at sea, near Pisa), the artist began his great job"Congratulations" - portrait group children who came with gifts to congratulate their parents on their silver wedding day (1914).

In September 1921, the artist Leonid Osipovich Pasternak with his wife and two daughters Josephine and Lydia received permission to leave Soviet Russia abroad for long-term treatment, at the personal request of A.V. Lunacharsky. They left, hoping to return to Moscow after normal life had been restored.
Sons Boris and Alexander remained in their parents’ apartment on Volkhonka, which had been converted into a communal apartment before their parents left.
Berlin became the place of residence of L. O. Pasternak and his family. He took on new tasks with enthusiasm and soon became accustomed to artistic atmosphere Berlin in the 1920s.
He painted portraits of many scientists, artists and writers of his time. This is the German philologist A. von Harnack, physicist A. Einstein, poet R. M. Rilke, writer G. Hauptmann, artist Max Liebermann. Among the Russians with whom he met and whose portraits he painted in Berlin are A. Remizov, M. Gershenzon, Lev Shestov, S. Prokofiev, diplomat J. Surits and his wife, A. Lunacharsky and his wife Natalya Rosenel.

Leonid Osipovich painted still lifes and interiors with soft evening lighting, city landscapes of Berlin and the outskirts of Munich.
After graduating from university, the daughters got married and moved away. Josephine with her husband and two children lived in Munich; the younger Lydia Pasternak-Slater moved to England in 1935, where her husband, soon after the birth of the children, received from his parents big house in Oxford.
With the tightening of Nazism in Germany, first Leonid Osipovich and his wife, and then Josephine and her family, fled to England. Pasternak's paintings in the boxes of the Soviet embassy were sent there, and then went to Moscow.
In 1938, Leonid Pasternak left Germany and settled in England. In London he took up work again, several paintings were given to British Museum, an exhibition of his works was planned.
The sudden death of his wife in August 1939 was a heavy blow. Lydia brought her grief-stricken father to Oxford. Leonid Osipovich Pasternak lived in the house at 20 Park Town for the last six years of his life. Leonid Osipovich died in Oxford on May 31, 1945.
Pasternak created a whole gallery of interiors with children, conveying musicality and warmth home peace. They joked about Leonid Pasternak that his children feed their parents. Indeed, drawings and lithographs depicting scenes of children's lives were a huge success among collectors.

Lidia Leonidovna PASTERNAK-Slater (1902-1989). Her childhood and youth were spent in an atmosphere high culture and intelligence characteristic of the Pasternak family. Her life, like that of all the children of Leonid and Rosalia Pasternak, was full of exciting events and circumstances. In 1921, she went to Berlin with her parents and older sister Josephine. The parents hoped to improve their failing health and give their daughters the opportunity to receive higher education. Josephine applied to the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Berlin. Lydia chose the biochemistry department of the same university, after which she worked at the Munich Institute of Psychiatry, then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. By the way, there she ended up in the same laboratory with the great scientist Nikolai Vasilyevich Timofeev-Resovsky.
Timofeev-Reso;vsky (1900 - 1981) - biologist, geneticist. In September 1945, Timofeev-Resovsky was transferred to Moscow and sentenced to 10 years for treason. In 1947, in connection with work on the creation of the Soviet atomic bomb, specialist
in radiation genetics, he was transferred to Object 0211. He was dying of hunger. In 1951 he was released. In 1955, he signed the famous “Letter of the Three Hundred” against “Lysenkoism.”

There Lydia met the English psychiatrist Eliot Slater. Marriage allowed her to leave in September 1935 Nazi Germany and settle in her husband’s homeland of Oxford, where Eliot received a large house from his parents. By that time, they had already had two sons, and subsequently two daughters were born in the UK: Michael (1936), Nicky (1938), Rose (1940) and Lisa (1945). Slater worked in military hospitals as a doctor, and in the last year of the war he left his family, placing a large house at the disposal of his wife.
Over the years, Lydia began to devote more and more time to literary studies. All her life Lydia wrote poetry, including in English.
Lidia Leonidovna Pasternak-Slater visited Russia 39 years after her departure from Moscow. It happened in the June days of 1960, when her brother Boris died in Peredelkino. Before his death, a telegram was sent to Oxford, but all Lydia’s throwing in front of the gates of the Soviet consulate was in vain. She was given a visa only after the funeral.
And she loved her country with all her soul. She preserved her father’s legacy, translated the poems of her brother Boris, Akhmatova, and Yevtushenko into English, and organized evenings dedicated to young poets from the USSR at various universities in England. And in 1979, for the opening of her father’s grandiose exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, she brought a whole collection of his works as a gift. She died in 1989.

Josephine Leonidovna PASTERNAK (1900 - 1993) in the summer of 1921 left through Latvia for Berlin. Josephine went to the Faculty of Philosophy to study religious philosophy.
In the spring of 1924, she married her second cousin, Fyodor Karlovich Pasternak, and settled with her husband in Munich, where she graduated from the university in 1929 with a Ph.D. In essence, she spent her entire life reflecting on questions of the theory of knowledge, which ultimately resulted in a serious essay.
Josephine also wrote poetry. Brother, Boris Pasternak admired them. Josephine had two children: daughter Alyonushka (1927) and son Charlie (1930). In the 30s, Josephine and her family were going to receive refugee status and move to America. Josephine's husband was interned as an Austrian subject.
In the fall of 1938, Josephine, her two children and her husband were forced to hastily flee Germany: they settled in Oxford near her father and sister.
Josephine Pasternak also became friends with A.F. Kerensky, whose sharp mind she highly valued.

PASTERNAK Alexander Leonidovich (1893, Moscow - 1982, ibid.) He studied at the gymnasium in the same class with Vladimir Mayakovsky. Graduated Moscow school painting, sculpture and architecture and the Polytechnic Institute.
He worked on the construction of the Shaturskaya State District Power Plant.
He was an assistant to K. S. Melnikov during the design and construction of the sarcophagus in the Mausoleum of V. I. Lenin.
Head of construction of the 4th junction of the Moscow-Volga canal (1935 - 37), author of projects for cottages for members of the Turkish government (1934) and a department store in Moscow (1938). He worked on the project for the restoration of Sevastopol (1946), taught at the Moscow Architectural Institute (1932 - 55).
Author of memoirs published in Munich in 1983. Memories cover mostly late XIX- the beginning of the 20th century until the revolution of 1917. Without claiming documentary accuracy and consistency of presentation, the author retained the sharpness of childhood and youth impressions and perfectly conveyed how architectural appearance Moscow of those years, as well as the unique charm of the life of families close to them in pre-revolutionary Moscow. His book is, among other things, also a guide to old Moscow, which is almost gone.
The roughness in the descriptions and the accuracy of the comparisons in places resemble the prose of its older brother. His wife Irina Nikolaevna, nee William, is also an architect. Son Fedor Aleksandrovich, his wife Rosalia Konstantinovna and their daughter Anna Fedorovna are oceanologists. Alexander Leonidovich was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.

Boris Leonidovich PASTERNAK (1890, Moscow - May 30, 1960, Peredelkino).
Until about 1920, Pasternak bore the patronymic name Isaakovich according to documents.
At the age of 13, under the influence of the composer A. N. Scriabin, Boris Pasternak became interested in music, which he studied for six years (his two preludes and a piano sonata have survived).
Pasternak graduated from high school with a gold medal and all the highest grades, except for the Law of God, from which he was exempt. In 1908 he entered the legal department of the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University (later transferred to philosophy). In the summer of 1912 he studied philosophy in Germany. At the same time, he proposed to Ida Vysotskaya (the daughter of a major tea merchant D.V. Vysotsky), but was refused.
Since 1914 he became closely acquainted with Mayakovsky, whose personality and work had a certain influence on him.
Pasternak's first poems were published in 1913 (collective collection of the Lyrics group), the first book - "Twin in the Clouds" - at the end of the same year (on the cover of 1914), was perceived by Pasternak himself as immature.
In 1916, the collection “Over Barriers” was published. Pasternak spent the winter and spring of 1916 in the Urals, accepting an invitation to work in the office of the manager of the Vsevolodo-Vilvensky chemical plants, Boris Zbarsky, as an assistant for business correspondence and trade and financial reporting.
Pasternak's parents and his sisters left in 1921 Soviet Russia and settled in Berlin.
In 1922, Pasternak married artist Evgenia Lurie. Evgenia Lurie was born in Mogilev into the family of a stationery store owner, one of four children. She graduated from a private gymnasium and went to Moscow, where she entered the mathematics department of the Higher Women's Courses. But soon she gave up mathematics and entered the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. She took painting lessons from Robert Falk and became a professional portrait artist. Evgenia had all the qualities of a classical muse - a sophisticated beauty, as if straight out of a Botticelli painting, cheerful, delicate, endowed with an amazing sense of beauty.
In 1923 (September 23), a son, Evgeniy, was born into the Pasternak family. Pasternak named his son after his beloved wife - contrary to the Jewish tradition of not giving babies the names of living relatives.
In 1931, Evgenia Lurie's marriage to Boris Pasternak broke up. Equilibrium family life Evgenia's jealousy was shaking her. She was incredibly worried about her husband’s correspondence with Marina Tsvetaeva.
For Evgenia, Pasternak’s departure, after a difficult explanation, turned into a tragedy - she began to slowly go crazy.
During the Great Patriotic War(from August 6, 1941) Evgenia Vladimirovna was evacuated with her son in Tashkent. She died in Moscow on July 10, 1965.
At the end of the 20s - the beginning of the 30s there are short period official Soviet recognition of Pasternak's work. He takes an active part in the activities of the Writers' Union and in 1934 gives a speech at its first congress, at which N.I. Bukharin called for Pasternak to be officially named the best poet Soviet Union.
In 1929, Pasternak met Zinaida Nikolaevna Neuhaus (nee Eremeeva, 1897-1966), at that time the wife of pianist G. G. Neuhaus, and together with her in 1931, Pasternak took a trip to Georgia. By the time of their first meeting, Pasternak was already almost forty, Zinaida Neuhauz - thirty-three. Her marriage, unlike the poet’s marriage, was very prosperous - Zinaida was married to a great pianist and founder of the famous music school Heinrich Neuhaus. And then Pasternak appeared in the Neuhaus house.
The writer became seriously interested in Zinaida and somehow explained things to her, but she decided to put him down. This not only did not cool Boris’s feelings, but spurred him on to another madness - he went to Heinrich Neuhaus and told him about his love for his wife. When the poet laid out everything to Heinrich, he was not even indignant, but calmly replied that everything was fine.
And that he perfectly understands the feelings of his rival, because he himself also has a woman in addition to his wife.
Having interrupted his first marriage, in 1932 Pasternak married Z. N. Neuhaus. On the night of January 1, 1938, their son Leonid (future physicist) is born.
After the death of her husband (1960), Zinaida Pasternak was left without a livelihood. His works were not published, and despite all the efforts of very eminent friends, he was never able to receive a pension for his husband. A year before her death, already seriously ill, she wrote “Memoirs” about her life with Boris.
Zinaida Nikolaevna Pasternak died in 1966 from throat cancer. Son Leonid Borisovich died in 1976 at the age of 38.
In 1936, Boris Pasternak settled in a dacha in Peredelkino. His Moscow address in the writer's house has been well known to many since the mid-1930s: Lavrushinsky Lane, 17/19, apt. 72. By the end of the 30s, Pasternak turned to prose and translations of Shakespeare, Goethe's Faust, and F. Schiller's Mary Stuart.
In 1937, Boris showed great civic courage - he refused to sign a letter approving the execution of Tukhachevsky and others, and defiantly visited the house of the repressed writer B. Pilnyak.
He spent 1942-1943 in evacuation to Chistopol, Tatarstan. He helped many people financially, including Marina Tsvetaeva’s daughter, Ariadna Efron.
In December 1946, in the editorial office of the magazine “ New World“Pasternak met O;lga Vse;volodovna Ivinskaya (1912 - 1995), she became the poet’s “muse”. Olga graduated from the Moscow Institute of Editorial Workers in 1934, worked as an editor, translator, and was a writer. Until Pasternak's death they had a close relationship. He dedicated many poems to her. She is the main prototype of Lara from Doctor Zhivago.
The novel "Doctor Zhivago" about destinies Russian intelligentsia from the beginning of the century to the Great Patriotic War, it was created over 10 years, from 1945 to 1955.
The publication of the novel in the West - first in Italy in 1957 by the pro-communist publishing house Feltrinelli, and then in Great Britain - led to real public persecution of Pasternak, expulsion from the Writers' Union, insults against him from the pages of newspapers, at meetings of workers. Fellow writers demanded that Pasternak be expelled from the Soviet Union and deprived of his Soviet citizenship. The persecution of the poet received a name in popular memories: “I haven’t read it, but I condemn it!”
As a result of a massive pressure campaign, Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize.
Pasternak died of lung cancer on May 30, 1960 in Peredelkino.
The announcement of his death was published only in " Literary newspaper"(dated June 2) and in the newspaper "Literature and Life" (dated June 1). Boris Pasternak was buried at the Peredelkinskoye cemetery.
Until 1989 school curriculum in the literature there was no mention of Pasternak’s work or his existence in general.
The fate of Ivinskaya is tragic. In 1949, she was arrested for "being close to persons suspected of espionage." In prison, the pregnant Ivinskaya suffered a miscarriage.
At a special meeting she was sentenced to 5 years.
After her release, she returned to Moscow, where she was Pasternak’s main support and support during the persecution after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pasternak bequeathed to Ivinskaya and her children a portion of the royalties for foreign editions of Doctor Zhivago. This money was the reason for her re-arrest (along with her daughter, Irina Emelyanova) in August 1960 on charges of smuggling. Olga was sentenced to 8 years, daughter Irina was given 3 years. The investigator accuses Olga of being the one... who wrote the seditious novel. Pasternak’s note fell into his hands: “No one knows that it’s all you, you alone led my hand...”. J. Nehru, the Belgian queen, Graham Greene, Francois Mauriac, Alberto Moravia and others write in defense of the two women.
Ivinskaya was released 4 years later in October 1964. Through the efforts of the book publisher Feltrinelli, she was included in the number of Pasternak’s heirs and received her share, which allowed her to live the last 30 years of her life in one-room apartment near Savelovsky station until his death on September 8, 1995. She was buried in the cemetery in Peredelkino.

Self-portrait

It is difficult to say in which direction of artistic creativity Leonid Osipovich Pasternak succeeded to the greatest extent. Lovers book illustration admire his drawings for the novel by L.N. Tolstoy's "Resurrection". Supporters of graphic works view his lithographs with satisfaction. His pastel paintings also brought the artist wide fame. Finally, the works done in oil testify to L. Pasternak’s extraordinary gift as a painter.

Initial art education L. O. Pasternak received at the Odessa Drawing School(1881), studied at private studio E.S. Sorokin in Moscow (1882). Later, he successfully combined studies at the Faculty of Law of Odessa University and classes at the Munich Royal Academy of Arts (1882-1885). Successes L.O. Pasternak in mastering artistic skills allowed him to discover his art school in Moscow. He is invited to teach at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he becomes one of the leading teachers. L. Pasternak's first genre works brought him closer to the painters, the future founders of the Union of Russian Artists, in which L.O. Pasternak will play one of the leading roles.
His first serious painting, “Letter from the Motherland” (1889), brought him fame and was acquired by P.M. Tretyakov.
Participation in exhibitions and portraits of customers created a strong reputation for the artist as a good draftsman. He opened a private drawing school in 1889, one of the first in Moscow, and five years later he was invited as a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting and Painting.
The master’s creative method was based on quick, almost instantaneous sketches that captured “the very essence of what was being depicted.” He called them the school of “true impressionism.” The artist managed to preserve the feeling of fixing the impression even in paintings- by choosing the most acute moment, a seemingly random movement that reveals the image ("Before the Exams", 1897; "L.N. Tolstoy in the Family", 1901; "Student", "Reading", both 1900s, and etc.).
In the 1890s. Pasternak were carried out best works in the area book graphics: drawings for the Collected Works of M. Yu. Lermontov (1891); four watercolors for the novel "War and Peace" (1893). At the personal invitation of L.N. Tolstoy, in constant friendly communication with the great writer, the artist created in 1898-99. illustrations for the novel "Resurrection", which remain unsurpassed to this day.
Already by the beginning of the century, Pasternak was a recognized portrait painter and illustrator, a founding member of the SRH, and since 1905 an academician. In the coming decades, his models were L.N. Tolstoy, S.V. Rachmaninov, F.I. Chaliapin, M. Gorky, after 1917 - Lenin, members of the government. In 1921 Pasternak left for Germany. Here he made portraits of A. Einstein, R. M. Rilke, D. Osborne. Recent years The artist spent his life (after 1939) in England.
It should be noted that he communicated with most of the leading Russian figures culture of that time. L.N. Tolstoy, F.I. Shalyapin, S.V. Rachmaninov, P.A. Kropotkin, S.P. Diaghilev are his close acquaintances. Traveling a lot around Western Europe, L.O. Pasternak paints portraits of many cultural and scientific figures (among them is a portrait of A. Einstein).
IN Soviet times the artist spends considerable time first in Germany, then in England.

The merit of L.O. is of a different nature. Pasternak in front national culture probably lies in a related artistic creativity sphere - he is the father of a famous Soviet poet Boris Leonidovich Pasternak.

Self-portrait

At work. Etude.

Portrait of A. B. Vysotskaya. 1912

Illustration for L. N. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection.” 1899

Music lessons. 1909

To my family. 1891

Meeting of the Council of Artists - Teachers of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. 1902

Portrait of the historian V.O. Klyuchevsky. 1909

Letter from home

Apple picking. 1918.

Sketch for the painting "Congratulations". 1914.

Orchestra

R.I. Parsnip by the sea. Merrekul. 1910.

Boris and Alexander Pasternak

Self-portrait with his wife

Ray of light

Leonid Osipovich Pasternak(according to documents Yitzchok-Leib, or Isaac Iosifovich, Pasternak, Also Posternak; 1862, Odessa -1945, Oxford) - Russian painter and graphic artist, master of genre compositions and book illustration; teacher Father of the poet Boris Pasternak.

Biography

Yitzchok-Leib Pasternak was born on March 22 (April 3), 1862 in Odessa, into the Jewish family of a small hotel owner. In addition to him, the family had five children. In early childhood he showed a love for drawing, although his parents did not approve of this hobby at first.

From 1874, he combined classes at the Odessa Drawing School with studies at the gymnasium, after which (1881) he unsuccessfully tried to enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1881 he entered Moscow University and studied at the medical faculty for two years. In 1883–86 studied at the Munich Academy of Arts and at the same time at the Faculty of Law of the Novorossiysk University in Odessa (graduated in 1885).

In parallel with his university studies, Pasternak continued to paint. In 1882 he studied at the Moscow school-studio of E. S. Sorokin. In the mid-1880s, he also studied at the Munich Academy of Arts, where he studied with Herterich and Litzen-Meyer, and also took etching lessons from I. I. Shishkin.

After the acquisition of his painting “Letter from Home” by P. M. Tretyakov for Tretyakov Gallery, Pasternak decides to move to Moscow, where in 1889 he marries pianist Rosalia Isidorovna (Raitsa, or Rose, Srulevna) Kaufman (1868–1939).

In the same year, Pasternak settled in Moscow, where he opened his own drawing school. Collaborated with the theatrical and musical illustrated magazine "Artist" (1889–95; Moscow).

Participated in annual exhibitions of the Itinerants. He was a member of the World of Art association.

In 1894, despite refusing to be baptized, he was confirmed as a professor at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (where he taught until 1921).

Pasternak had a long friendship with H. N. Bialik, G. Struk, A. Shtybel and other figures of Jewish culture. In 1922–33 Pasternak often attended meetings of Zionist leaders in Berlin with the participation of H. Weizmann, N. Sokolov and others. In the 1920s Pasternak headed the art department of the Berlin branch of the Yavne publishing house (Jerusalem), where in 1923 his album of portraits was published (N. Sokolov, M. Gershenzon, H. N. Bialik, S. An-sky, D. Frishman, I. Engel, J. Maze, as well as a self-portrait) with a foreword by G. Struck in Hebrew and Russian. In the same year, Pasternak’s philosophical and aesthetic essay “Rembrandt and Jewry in His Work” was published in Berlin (in Russian - S. Salzman’s publishing house; translated into Hebrew - “Yavne”) - a kind of hymn to the Jewish worldview, the reflection of which Pasternak saw in the works of the great Dutchman. In 1923, in the magazine “Ha-Olam” (No. 2, Berlin), dedicated to the 50th anniversary of H. N. Bialik, Pasternak’s memoirs about their meetings were published.

A. I. Shtybel published a monograph in Berlin art critic M. Osborne (1870–1946) about Pasternak ( German, 1923), which contained four fragments from the artist’s autobiography and about 150 reproductions of his works, and in 1924 - an album (148 reproductions; text in Hebrew) with a foreword by M. Osborne and an article by H. N. Bialik “A. L. Pasternak" (initials - after Jewish name Pasternak), who wrote that this is an artist who “returned to Jewish origins.”

In 1924, Pasternak participated in an art expedition to Eretz Israel and Egypt, organized by A. E. Kogan (1878–1949), editor of the art magazine “Firebird” (1921–23). Based on sketches and sketches made in Eretz Israel, Pasternak created several paintings (“Palestinian Landscape”, “Palestine. Heat and a Donkey” and others). Pasternak designed the cover for a collection of children's songs by I. Engel ("Shirei Yeladim" - "Children's Songs", 1925, Jerusalem).

Works

• At work. Etude. Oil
• Portrait of A. G. Rubinstein (1886),
• Illustrations for L. N. Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”
• Illustrations for L. N. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection.” 1899
• Illustrations for the drama “Masquerade” by M. Yu. Lermontov (1891),
• Illustrations for the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov (1891)
• “Meeting of the Council of Teachers of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture” (1902)
• L. N. Tolstoy with his family in Yasnaya Polyana (1902)
• "News from the Motherland"
• Portrait of S. S. Shaikevich
• Portrait of A. B. Vysotskaya. 1912. Pastel
• Portrait of M. Gorky (1906),
• Portrait of A. N. Scriabin (1909),
• Portrait of Il. M. Mechnikova (1911),
• Portrait of Vyach. Ivanova (1915)
• Music lessons. 1909. Pastel

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In the dressing room 1893

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The night before the exam

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Conductor V. I. Suk 1898

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Island of Rügen 1906

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L. N. Tolstoy with his family 1902

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Leo Tolstoy 1908

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Leo Tolstoy

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Pines and sea 1910

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Unloading a wagon (Odessa port) 1911

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May 30 marks the day of remembrance of the famous Russian writer, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1958) Boris Pasternak. Introducing 10 bright quotes this talented person.

“We all became people only to the extent that we loved people and had the opportunity to love.”



“Life is also only a moment,
Only dissolution
Ourselves in all others
As if as a gift to them.”



Portrait of Boris Pasternak. Photo

“Losing in life is more necessary than gaining. The grain will not sprout unless it dies.”



“I love you so much that even if I am careless and indifferent, you are so one of a kind, as if you have always been my sister, and first love, and wife, and mother, and everything that a woman was for me. You are That Woman."



“Life returned just as without reason,
How it was once strangely interrupted".



"Silence, you are the best
From everything I've heard."



“Everything is special this spring,
The noise is livelier than sparrows.
I don't even try to express it
How light and quiet my soul is.”



“You need to set yourself tasks higher than your strengths: firstly, because you never know them anyway, and secondly, because strength appears as you complete an unattainable task.”



“The world is music for which you need to find words!”



Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino, October 1958. Portrait by Jerry Cook

"It's not nice to be famous"
This is not what lifts you up.
There is no need to create an archive,
Shake over the manuscripts,
The goal of creativity is dedication
Not hype, not success.
Shamefully meaning nothing
To be a byword on everyone's lips..."