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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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