Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 11

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

As Bulgakov and Pasternak never attacked him openly, they were never arrested.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.