BORIS PASTERNAK
Photographs Manuscripts

1891 Odessa. Boris with his mother 
1908 Boris, school photo 
1916 Boris in the Urals 
1924 Boris and the film director Sergei Eisenstein (back row), with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and his lover, Lili Brik 
1927 Boris with his first wife, Evgenia, and their son Evgeni 
1934 André Malraux with the theatre director, V.E. Meyerhold, and Boris (left to right). 
c1935 Zinaida, Boris’s second wife 
1939 Fadeyev, Secretary of the Writers’ Union, presides over a celebration for the writer Aseyev (on the right), Boris in the centre, at the Writers’ House, Moscow 
1943 Boris on a writers’ delegation to the Orel battlefield, with a war correspondent 
1946 Boris with Anna Akhmatova, poet and friend 
1946 Boris, Nina Tabidze (widow of the Georgian poet Titsian Tabidze), his wife Zinaida and their son Leonid (right to left) 
1946 Boris working in the vegetable garden of his dacha at Peredelkino 
1951 Boris and a friend, A. G. Gabrichevsky 
1953 Boris in his study. His note on the verso says “I never come out well in photos” 
1957 Boris with his lover, Irina Ivinskaya 
1958 Boris at home at Peredelkino 
1958 Boris reading congratulatory telegrams about the Nobel Prize, with his wife Zinaida (on the right) and Nina Tabidze 
1959 Boris with the actor playing Mephistopheles in his translation of Goethe’s Faust 
1960 Boris in his coffin, with his widow Zinaida and son Leonid 
1960 Boris’s funeral procession at Peredelkino, with his two sons as leading pall‑bearers