Word: peredelkino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death, was a big bestseller in Russia. Its plea for ordinary human decency is commonplace, but its point that party realism results in cruelty is so carefully spelled out that no Russian reader could have missed it. Unlike Boris Pasternak, his neighbor in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino, Novelist Nilin attempted no sweeping indictment of Communist inhumanity. Still, his little, almost boyish novel may be read as a sign that many Russians have their doubts about the Communist world...
...Territory of Conscience. In far-off Peredelkino, in his fir-and birch-engirdled, two-story dacha 15 miles southwest of Moscow, Boris Pasternak was mute but not inglorious. Against the sky he could see silhouetted the blue, oniontop cupolas of the village Orthodox Church, symbol of the Christian faith that enables his hero, Dr. Yurii Zhivago, to endure the torment, humiliations, sins and tragedy of war and revolution. On the walls of his study glow the illustrations that his artist-father drew for Resurrection by the great Tolstoy, whom Boris Pasternak has called "the territory of conscience." On that territory...
Pasternak, the father of three grown sons, is married to Zinaida Nikolaevna Neuhaus, a plump, inconspicuous half-Italian woman (she is his second wife; little is known of his first, Eugenia, whom he divoiced in 1931). At Peredelkino, Boris Pasternak guards one of the few outposts of the "Other Russia" that exist in the U.S.S.R. On Sunday, over groaning helpings of zakuski (Russian hors d'oeuvres) and repeated toasts, Pasternak holds open house for bright young artists and intellectuals-or did until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three...
...place where he sleeps and eats, dirties those with whom he lives and by whose labor he exists." A mass meeting of 800 "intellectuals" in Moscow's Cinema House demanded unanimously that Pasternak be stripped of his citizenship and thrown out of the country. In the village of Peredelkino outside Moscow, where Pasternak lives in a dacha given him by Stalin,* the local writers' colony complained: "We cannot continue to breathe the same air. It is necessary to ask the government that Pasternak be excluded from the forthcoming population census...