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Boris Pasternak

1890 - 1960

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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Pasternak is the 141st most popular writer (down from 139th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 49th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Writer.

Boris Pasternak is most famous for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was published in 1957 and then banned in the Soviet Union.

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Among writers, Boris Pasternak ranks 141 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Swift, Paul Verlaine, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cato the Elder, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Among people born in 1890, Boris Pasternak ranks 8. Before him are Ho Chi Minh, Agatha Christie, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lawrence Bragg, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Friedrich Paulus. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Egon Schiele, Alfred Jodl, Karel Čapek, Fritz Lang, and George II of Greece. Among people deceased in 1960, Boris Pasternak ranks 2. Before him is Albert Camus. After him are Max von Laue, Clark Gable, Erich Raeder, Albert Kesselring, Amanullah Khan, Wilhelm Pieck, Melanie Klein, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Paula Hitler, and Walther Funk.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Pasternak ranks 43 out of 3,761. Before him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), and Vyacheslav Molotov (1890). After him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Alexander Nevsky (1220).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Boris Pasternak ranks 9. Before him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918). After him are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Lermontov (1814).

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