Boris Pasternak


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Noun1.Boris Pasternak - Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Pasternak
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This is not surprising, because the highlights of his research year in the USSR were meetings with intellectuals and cultural elites, like Boris Pasternak, Kornei Chukovskii, and Anna Akhmatova.
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The film was adapted from a 1957 book by the Russian author Boris Pasternak, one of the most famous poets from the Soviet Union.
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