Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
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Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)

Autograph manuscript, eight poems from the sequence Когда разгуляется [When the weather clears], n.d. [c.1956]

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Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Autograph manuscript, eight poems from the sequence Когда разгуляется [When the weather clears], n.d. [c.1956]
In Russian. Complete. Fair copies in purple ink on 10 pages, 297 x 225mm, in a gathering of three bifolia, the poems numbered 1-8; a slip of paper is pasted over the title on p.1. Provenance: Sotheby's, 12 May 1981, lot 444.

Poems extracted from Pasternak's last collection, When the weather clears. The full sequence was made up in full of 34 poems, completed in 1959. The poems in the present manuscript comprise: 'Ночь' [Night], the title poem 'Когда разгуляется', 'Хлеб' [Bread], 'В больнице' [In Hospital], 'Осенний лес' [Autumn Forest], 'Дорога' [The Road], 'Музыка' [Music] and 'Заморозки' [Frost].