Subscription list with autographs of writers Boris Pasternak, Ilya Selvinsky, Alexander Fadeev and other poets and writers

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) was a 20th—century Russian writer, poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous novel “Doctor Zhivago”, numerous translations from other languages, collections of poems, novels, articles and essays. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1952, Pasternak suffered a heart attack, but despite this, he continued to create and develop. Boris Leonidovich began a new cycle of his poems — "When he gets wild" (1956-1959) This was the writer's last book. An incurable disease, lung cancer, led to Pasternak's death on May 30, 1960. The poet died in Peredelkino.