- His poem opens Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) which also features the poetry of Sayat Nova, whose poem closes it.
- The model for Lara in his novel "Doctor Zhivago" was his longtime companion Olga Iwinskaja, who died at the age of 83 in Moscow in 1995. Iwinskaja was thrown into Soviet prison-camps twice because of her relationship with Pasternak, who she met when she was an editor at literary magazine Novy Mir.
- Should have received the Nobel Prize for his novel "Doctor Zhivago" in 1958, but the Soviet regime forced him not to do so.
- Graduated from Moscow Editorial Worker's Institute.
- "Doctor Zhivago" was rejected by Soviet publishers and was published in Italy in 1957.
- He studied philosophy at the Marburg University in Germany between 1910 and 1913. After the revolution in 1917 he worked as a librarian, writing poetry in his spare time.
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