![]() ![]() ![]() For example, "Gamlet" was written in 1946 while Pasternak was working on his celebrated translation of Shakespeare's drama. He worked on the novel for many years (the earliest passages date from the 1910s) and composed the poetry at various intervals during its gestation. Pasternak was one of Russia's greatest poets when he conceived his epic tale of the Soviet Union. This signed typescript comprises ten of the 25 "Lara" poems in Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel Doctor Zhivago (1957). Warmly inscribed on the first blank page: " To dear Iuri Aleksandrovich for good memory in wishing a speedy settling of your home life Pasternak 8 March 1948. ![]() Afanasiev has used his position to shed a more factual light on StalinĀ“s purges and crimes. Inscribed to Iuri Aleksandrovich Afanasiev, a leading reformist intellectual appointed rector of the State History and Archives Institute in 1986. ![]() Signed carbon copy of 10 poems, later published in Doctor Zhivago (1957), 20 pages (rectos only), original tan wrappers, size is 6.75 x 9 inches. Russian poet, novelist and literary translator (1890-1960), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, after his novel Doctor Zhivago was published outside Russia due to a government ban. ![]()
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