BORIS PASTERNAK b. February 10, 1890

BORIS PASTERNAK

February 10, 1890-May 30, 1960

BORIS PASTERNAK (r) TALKING TO

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (l) IN THE FILM

"BERNSTEIN IN MOSCOW" BY

RICHARD LEACOCK (1959)

Boris Pasternak, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, is probably best known outside Russia for his novel, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, but inside Russia and the Soviet Union for his poetry. Discussions of both, and of Pasternak's life, can be found here and here.

A still photograph of Pasternak and Bernstein and Bernstein's wife Felicia Montealegre taken on the 1959 visit of the New York Philharmonic to the USSR can be found here.

More on Richard Leacock and the film here

More on Leonard Bernstein here