How it was №1 18.07.1998 (1998)

Video chronicle: Russian writer, poet and translator Boris Pasternak reads a translation of Nikoloz Baratashvili's poem "Blue Color".

Oleg Shklovsky reads a fragment of Boris Pasternak's poem "Nobel Prize".

The program reveals the history of the novel "Doctor Zhivago", for which Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Video story: Boris Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino.

Natalia Pasternak tells how one of the representatives of the Communist Party of Italy, an employee of the Italian editorial office of Moscow Radio D'Angi, asked the writer for the manuscript of the novel, for his review and publication.

Pasternak makes a difficult decision to give the manuscript abroad.

Video story: Boris Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino.

Fragment of a speech by Giacomo Feltrinelli, publisher of the novel "Doctor Zhivago".

Andrei Voznesensky talks about attempts to publish the novel in the USSR. The manuscript was sent to Novy Mir, Goslitizdat, etc.

But despite the willingness of the publishers, some representatives of the Writers' Union prevented it.

In October 1957, Aleksey Surkov, along with a group of other writers, went to Italy to persuade Feltrinelli not to publish the novel Doctor Zhivago.

Despite all sorts of intrigues, he failed to dissuade the publisher.

On November 15, 1957, Doctor Zhivago was published in Italy.

Oleg Shklovsky quotes the words of the Secretary of the Nobel Committee, Lars Gyllensten, about the awarding of the prize to Boris Pasternak in 1958. Natalya Pasternak tells how the family reacted to the awarding of the prize.

The first to come to congratulate them were the Ivanov couple.

Video chronicle: Soundtrack of the recording of Tamara Ivanovna, the widow of the writer Vsevolod Ivanov, about her visit to Pasternak.

Tamara Ivanova at the dacha.

Photos of the festive table.

Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino.

Study.

Natalya Pasternak talks about congratulations from Korney Chukovsky and Ilya Selvinsky.

Konstantin Fedin suggested that Pasternak refuse the award so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Leonid Shklovsky reads a fragment of Leonid Khrushchev's memoirs, where the Soviet leader mentions the situation around "Doctor Zhivago".

Khrushchev condemned the novel and Pasternak's anti-Soviet act.

Video chronicle: Leonid Khrushchev at the podium.

Andrei Voznesensky tells how he provoked an indignant reaction from Khrushchev when he compared Pasternak to Lermontov.

Yuri Lyubimov talks about his acquaintance with the writer.

Recalls his acting work in the play "Romeo and Juliet", translated by Boris Pasternak.

At the premiere of the play, during the duel scene between Romeo and Tybalt, a piece of steel rod broke off from a sword and stuck into the chair where Boris Pasternak and Andrei Voznesensky were sitting.

Andrei Voznesensky reads his poem written after this incident.

Konstantin Vanshenkin recalls how he was a participant in a two-day meeting of the Writers' Union dedicated to condemning the actions of Boris Pasternak.

The fact of receiving the Nobel Prize launched a mass campaign to condemn the writer's work.

Konstantin Vanshenkin emphasizes that those who spoke at this meeting had not even read the novel.

He recalls with humor the absurd statements of the participants, and tells how he ran to the buffet together with Tvardovsky, Smirnov, and Rylenkov.

Anna Alliluyeva (Stalin's sister-in-law) was the only one who voted against expelling Pasternak from the Writers' Union.

Interview with writer Mikhail Alekseev.

Oleg Shklovsky quotes an article from the newspaper Pravda about the deprivation of Boris Pasternak of the title of writer and his expulsion from the Writers' Union.

Video chronicle: Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (1958).

Soundtrack of Semichastny's insulting speech against Boris Pasternak.

Interview with Tanit Tabidze, daughter of Titsian Tabidze, a friend of the Pasternak family.

At the request of the authorities, Boris Pasternak was forced to go to Georgia for the duration of the visit of British Prime Minister Macmillan to Moscow.

Returning to Moscow, Pasternak died a year and two months later.