Pasternak [Puhstirnák], Boris Leonidovich (1–29/2–10–1890, M.; 5–30–1960, Peredelkino). Poet, novelist, and comp. Son of painter Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), who illustrated L. Tolstoy's novels, and concert pianist Rosa Kaufman Pasternak (1867–1940), a pupil of Leschetizky. In late-Spring 1903, while vacationing with his family in Obolenskoye, he met A.N. Skryabin who, in a neighboring dacha, was working on his Divine Poem for orch. This encounter stimulated in the young Pasternak an…