The Pasternak Trust’s archive includes: An extensive correspondence between Boris Pasternak and his parents and sisters (1921-60). The diaries of Olga Freidenberg, Boris’s first cousin, classical scholar and co-theorist with Bakhtin. These diaries cover in particular the Siege of Leningrad, which she lived through and survived. First editions of Tolstoy’s Resurrection, and other works illustrated by Leonid Pasternak. A rich family photographic archive from the 1880s onwards. A large collection of family papers and diaries.
1886 Rosalia on tour in Vienna as solo pianist, aged nineteen1890s Rosalia & Leonid, Odessac1895 Boris with his younger brother Alexander1903 Olga Freidenberg, Boris’s first cousin and close friend, later a classical scholar and colleague of Bakhtinc1896 Rosalia with her mother and Boris, and Leonid’s mother with Alexander on her lap.1890s Rosalia with Boris, Alexander and a friend on the beach at Odessa1911 Leonid and his son Alexander, preparing for the Union of Russian Artists’ Spring Exhibition. Alexander is hanging his father’s picture of Tolstoy on his deathbed.c1908 Leonid with his four children, left to right: Boris, Lydia, Josephine, Alexander1910 Rosalia, Leonid, Lydia and Josephine on the dacha steps1916 Family meal at the dacha, Molodi1917 A hot day at the dacha: Leonid, Rosalia, Mrs Stiebel, Boris, Lydia, and Josephine yawning
