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Boris Pasternak

Died in 1960

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, son of a painter who illustrated Tolstoy and of a concert pianist, studied musical composition for six years under the influence of Scriabin, then philosophy at the University of Marburg. A recognised poet, he translated Shakespeare's great dramas and several works by Goethe. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, he was forced by the Soviet authorities to decline it. He died on 30 May 1960 in Peredelkino, near Moscow.

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