This was done because it was known that a Nobel Prize for Boris Pasternak would seriously harm the international credibility of the Soviet Union.

On 23 October 1958, Boris Pasternak was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize.

Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino on the evening of 30 May 1960.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

* May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( declined ) ( b. 1890 )

* ( 1956 ) In Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, the main character contracts epidemic typhus in the winter following the Russian Revolution, while living in Moscow.

By contrast, Korol Lir has been praised, for example by critic Anikst Alexander, for the " serious, deeply thoughtful " even " philosophical approach " of director Grigori Kozintsev and writer Boris Pasternak.

Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.

She became close friends with Boris Pasternak ( who, though married, proposed to her many times ) and rumours began to circulate that she was having an affair with influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok.

The film, based on a novel by Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a physician and poet ( Omar Sharif ) who falls in love with an unavailable woman named Lara ( Julie Christie ) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.

The poets most often associated with the " Silver Age " are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.

Some 1930s writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, and Nobel-prize winning Boris Pasternak with his novel Doctor Zhivago continued the classical tradition of Russian literature with little or no hope of being published.

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* Boris Pasternak

Among the admirers of Verlaine's work was the Russian language poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

He befriended Boris Pasternak, and was responsible for smuggling a typescript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia to England.

One example of this took place after Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Her last film of the year was David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, adapted from the epic / romance novel by Boris Pasternak.

* Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago ( M )

In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize again for a cartoon depicting Doctor Zhivago author Boris Pasternak in a Soviet GULAG with the caption " I won the Nobel Prize for literature.

** Note: Marker wrote the introductory text for this film under the name " Boris Villeneuve " ( Film Comment ).

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

In the beginning of 1965, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Boris Struminsky and Albert Tavchelidze wrote a preprint with a more detailed discussion of the additional quark quantum degree of freedom.

In 1911, help arrived from renowned Russian musicologist and critic Alexander Ossovsky, who wrote a supportive letter to music publisher Boris P. Jurgenson, thus a contract was offered to the composer.

Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower ( 1949 ) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, " appeared to overact " alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951.

Bulgarian-American Stephane Groueff wrote the celebrated book " Manhattan Project ", about the making of the first atomic bomb and also penned " Crown of Thorns ", a biography of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria.

Boris Eding wrote that they most likely were of the same onion shape as the present-day domes.

The writer Boris Pahor was interned in Natzweiler-Struthof and wrote his novel Necropolis based on this experience.

He lived at Yalta for the rest of his life, and it was there that he wrote the main part of his music, including his two symphonies and the incidental music for Alexey Tolstoy's Tsar Boris.

He wrote that the British athletes were " tainted with the blood of Tibetans ", and that London mayor Boris Johnson was " forced to go to Beijing to collect the Olympic flag ".

The staff at Variety also believed the film was derivative, and wrote, " The familiar artifice of placing the scribe in parallel plight, with the newspaperman arrested for two slayings and only clearing himself because of his sweetheart's persistent search for the real slayer, is used ... Boris Ingster's direction is too studied and when original, lacks the flare to hold attention.

Boris Spassky wrote:

Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Vladimir Nabokov wrote important verse tributes to Blok.

More recently, he contributed guitar to the track " Blood Swamp " from the 2006 SunnO )))/ Boris album Altar, for which he also wrote liner notes.

He wrote the book Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia, a biography of the Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, accusing him of various crimes including fraud, money laundering, links with Chechen mafia, a murder and supporting Chechen separatist movement.

In Artists in Uniform, Max Eastman wrote a chapter about him called " The Humiliation of Boris Pilnyak.

Russell Gleason was married to Cynthia Lindsay, a former Busby Berkeley chorus girl who later wrote a biography of family friend Boris Karloff.

Most of Horowitz's plays were historical, but he also wrote " zeit piessen " on topical subjects, such as a play about the Homestead Strike of 1892, one about a 1903 pogrom in Chişinău, and a distinctly socialist take on the 1889 Johnstown flood written while working with Boris Thomashefsky in Chicago.

In 1941 he began to take counterpoint lessons with Boris Blacher ; at that time he wrote his first work, Prinzessin Turandot, at the suggestion of Werner Egk.

Following the discovery of the remains of Emperor Nicholas II and most of his immediate family in 1991, Maria Vladimirovna wrote to President Boris Yeltsin, regarding the burial of the remains, saying of her Romanov cousins, whom she does not recognise as members of the Imperial family ( including the grandchildren of Nicholas II's sister Grand Duchess Xenia ), that they " do not have the slightest right to speak their mind and wishes on this question.

In July 1937, after discovering co-workers rifling his desk and searching his offices in the dead of night, he received a letter from his 14-year-old son Boris, who wrote his father that he, his brother, and Barmine's mother were going " far, far away to bathe in the sea.

" Boris also wrote:

During the 1960s and 1970s he wrote and introduced innumerable radio programmes about the arts, including series about the ballet and opera, and features on individual artists, interviewing among others Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn, Boris Christoff and Maggie Teyte.