La Storia siamo Noi: The Pasternak Case (ENG SUB)

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy and was first published by Feltrinelli in 1957 (retranslated in 2007). A book that quickly became an international publishing sensation, launching the publishing house and inspiring a highly successful film.

Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize. In 1989, Pasternak's son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf. Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003.

Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino on the evening of 30 May 1960.