POEMS (194 pp.)—Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden—University of Michigan ($3.95). Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language ...

What price love? Lara chronicles the horrifically steep costs for Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's mistress, muse, and model for Yuri Zhivago's lover in Doctor Zhivago (alluringly played by Julie ...

Russia’s Channel One commissioned “The Crime of Boris Pasternak” from Svetlana Rezvushkina’s Lavr Film Studio, and then — giving no reason — refused to air it upon its completion. Was it because the ...

IN A modest house not far from Moscow lives a gray-haired poet of sixty-eight by the name of Boris Pasternak. Visitors are struck by the serenity of his face, distinguished by high cheekbones and deep ...

Boris Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago,” whose views of Bolshevism appalled Soviet authorities, very nearly made him an exile. Pasternak, subject of “The Real Doctor Zhivago” (Monday, Acorn TV), ...

Elderly ladies in lace jabots and stiffly polite gentlemen in somewhat frayed double-breasted black suits filled five small rooms in Munich’s Municipal Gallery. They were members of Munich’s large ...

The selection of Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago” for a Nobel Prize has attracted the interest of many Jews who feel the novel makes a case against Jewish survival. The author who ...

Attending the Bolshoi Theatre on Sverdlov Square in Moscow is always an exciting prospect. Once the Great Imperial Theatre, built in 1824 with a statue of Phoebus in his sun chariot above its ionic ...

Under a white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 ...

The dramatic twists and turns of the leading figures of the avant-garde during the Russian Revolution.