Google dedicated a doodle to Boris Pasternak
Google dedicated a doodle to Russian poet, writer and translator Boris Pasternak.
February 10 marks 131 years since the birth of the poet. A doodle dedicated to Pasternak appeared on the Google.ru home page.
One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century was born on February 10, 1890 in Moscow. The poet's father Leonid Osipovich Pasternak was an artist, academician of the Petersburg Academy of Arts, his mother was a pianist. Pasternak's parents moved to Moscow from Odessa in 1889, a year before his birth.
In 1908, Boris Pasternak entered the Law Faculty of Moscow University, and in 1909 he transferred to the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of History and Philology. Pasternak's first poems were published when he was 23 years old. In the late 1930s, he turned to prose and translation, which became his main source of income in the 40s. He created the classic translations of many tragedies by William Shakespeare, “Faust” by Goethe, “Mary Stuart” by Schiller. In 1955 he completed the novel Doctor Zhivago. Three years later, for this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he later had to refuse.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak died of lung cancer in Peredelkino near Moscow on May 30, 1960 at the age of 71.
Earlier, on January 14, Google created a doodle about the famous explorer Petr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky.
