POEMS (194 pp.)—Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden—University of Michigan ($3.95). Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language ...

The Russian Review is a multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the peoples of the former Russian Empire and former ...

When Dr. Zhivago author Boris Pasternak died in 1960, Soviet authorities pointedly did not publicize his death. Hundreds attended his funeral in a rare show of protest against the Soviet regime. Dr.

The laughter of his guests had suddenly died away, and Boris Pasternak sat disconsolately at his own 69th birthday party listening to the angry words of his wife. “How many times have I told you not ...

Boris Pasternak (Public domain) A Russian literary expert says the U.S. secret service oversaw the publication in Russian of Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago," paving the way for him to win the world ...