Boris leonidovich pasternack biography sample

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak(1890-1960) is one of Russia’s greatest post-revolutionary poets.

Boris leonidovich pasternack biography sample

He was born into a prominent Jewish family of artist Leonid Pasternak and pianist Rozaliya Kaufman, brought up and lived in Moscow. Pasternak’s education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow, he studied musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910 with Alexander Scriabin at the Moscow Conservatory.

He graduated from Moscow University (1908-1913) with a degree in philosophy, and studied philosophy at Marburg University in Germany for a semester in 1912. Around 1909 he started translating Rilke. In 1913, Pasternak published his first book Lyrics, and in a year A Twin in the Clouds was out.

Pasternak greeted the February Revolution that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, then, as many members of intelligentsia, he had some idealistic believes that October Revolution would bring enlightenment and artistic freedom, but soon enough was disaffecte