Борис Пастернак

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Doctor Zhivago. The book "Boris Pasternak. Times of Life" tells about the life and work of Boris Pasternak in their inseparability: the birth of a poet, the choice of oneself, the world around, love, family, friends and enemies, the search for a compromise with time and opposition to it: from the "silver" beginning XX century before the novel "Doctor Zhivago" and the Nobel Prize. Pasternak and Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Mandelstam and, of course, Stalin are the inner, tense plots of this book, which is a continuation of previous books - "Boris Pasternak. Fate and Destiny" (St. Petersburg, 2000), "Pasternak and Others" (M ., 2003), TV series "Boris Pasternak. Uninhibited voice" (2006). The book is intended for those who want to learn more about Russian poetry and the trials that its authors went through.