Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Boris Pasternak across 3 places, from 1910 to 1960.
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Boris Pasternak is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Boris Pasternak was documented, and when
November 1910month
Astapovoattested“Pasternak wrote, According to Max Hayward, "In November 1910, when Tolstoy fled from his home and died in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo, Leonid Pasternak was informed by telegram and he went there immediately, taking his son Bori…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
5 March 1953exact date
Moscowattested“When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Ivinskaya was still imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
30 May 1960exact date
Peredelkinoattested“Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino on the evening of 30 May 1960.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
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1904year
Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavramentioned“From 1904 to 1907, Boris Pasternak was the cloister-mate of Peter Minchakievich (1890–1963) in Holy Dormition Pochayev Lavra (now in Ukraine).”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
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Ukrainementioned“From 1904 to 1907, Boris Pasternak was the cloister-mate of Peter Minchakievich (1890–1963) in Holy Dormition Pochayev Lavra (now in Ukraine).”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
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German Empirementioned“In 1910, he abruptly left for the University of Marburg in Germany, where he studied under neo-Kantian philosophers Hermann Cohen, Nicolai Hartmann, and Paul Natorp.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
1912year
Marburgmentioned“They met in Marburg during the summer of 1912 when Boris' father, Leonid Pasternak, painted her portrait.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
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Siberiamentioned“After World War One and the Revolution, fighting for the Provisional or Republican government under Kerensky, and then escaping a Communist jail and execution, Minchakievich trekked across Siberia in 1917 and became an American citizen.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
March 1956month
Soviet Unionmentioned“In March 1956, the Italian Communist Party sent a journalist, Sergio D'Angelo, to work in the Soviet Union, and his status as a journalist as well as his membership in the Italian Communist Party allowed him to have access to various asp…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
March 1956month
Moscowmentioned“In March 1956, the Italian Communist Party sent a journalist, Sergio D'Angelo, to work in the Soviet Union, and his status as a journalist as well as his membership in the Italian Communist Party allowed him to have access to various asp…”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
1958year
Sovietmentioned“It is possible that the 1958 Nobel Prize prevented Pasternak's imprisonment due to the Soviet State's fear of international protests.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
1959year
Russiamentioned“During the summer of 1959, Pasternak began writing The Blind Beauty, a trilogy of stage plays set before and after Alexander II's abolition of serfdom in Russia.”source: Wikipedia: Boris Pasternak
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