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