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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Wrote Doctor Zhivago.

Born: 10 February 1890, Moscow, Russia
Died: 30 May 1960, Peredelkino, Russia

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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